Homage to Catalonia
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Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the shaping events on his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write, in 1946, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism, as I understand it."
The first edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until February 1952, when it appeared with an influential preface by Lionel Trilling. The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948.
See also
- Anarchist Catalonia
- Bibliography of George Orwell
- ILP Contingent described in Homage to Catalonia
- Les grands cimetières sous la lune
- Spanish Revolution
- William Herrick 'an American Orwell', also disillusioned by Stalinism in Spain