{"product_id":"homage-to-catalonia","title":"Homage to Catalonia","description":"\u003cp\u003eA  National Review  Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“One of Orwell’s very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.”— The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participant—as a member of the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unity. Fighting against the Fascists, he described in painfully vivid and occasionally comic detail life in the trenches—with a “democratic army” composed of men with no ranks, no titles, and often no weapons—and his near fatal wounding. As the politics became tangled, Orwell was pulled into a heartbreaking conflict between his own personal ideals and the complicated realities of political power struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConsidered one of the finest works by a man V. S. Pritchett called “the wintry conscience of a generation,”  Homage to Catalonia  is both Orwell’s memoir of his experiences at the front and his tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. This edition features a new foreword by Adam Hochschild placing the war in greater context and discussing the evolution of Orwell’s views on the Spanish Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“No one except George Orwell . . . made the violence and self-dramatization of Spain so burning and terrible.”— Alfred Kazin,  New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A wise book, one that once read will never be forgotten.”— Chicago Sunday Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54363540685168,"sku":"A6669","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/61bL5fOu-LL._SY1500_1889c37e-97ea-4e5d-a05c-ff604f953cdf.jpg?v=1792581199","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/en-ca\/products\/homage-to-catalonia","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}