Homage to Catalonia (Audiobook)

from erinspragg

This classic piece of Orwellian journalism documents his experience fighting in the Spanish Civil War in his typically witty and sardonic style. From being shot in the throat to evading capture from enemy troops Orwell questions what it means to fight for a political cause and explores the comple...

from William345

A wonderful book full of the stink and horror of war. The accounts of the Republic's assaults on the Falange are, save for one instance, pitiful and sickening. Descriptions, too, of Madrid during the conflict the likes of which I have come across nowhere else. Exquisite and appalling. Read with H...

from Bagpuss

This was the penultimate of Orwell's 'full sized' books that I had left to read. It deals with the Spanish Civil War - a subject I knew very little about. I must admit that I had been putting this one off as I thought it might be a bit dry.At the age of 33, Orwell headed to Spain, after getting t...

from alexgalindo

In this novel Orwell achieves an aesthetic rarely matched in even the most vivid fiction. His dry humor and honesty dances right on beat with his romanticism of radical politics.(a romance I share myself.) Staged in the critical years of the Spanish Civil War, Orwell doesn't merely write of the e...

from FordStaff

This book captures humanity in all its majesty and horror from the insightful perspective of George Orwell. Why on earth Animal Farm was required reading in my high school years instead of this vastly superior book is baffling to me, particularly because Homage to Catalonia displays the same misu...