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October Book Club

October 26 @ 4:00 pm5:00 pm

Homage to Catalonia Chapters 3-5

Links to the book

Amazon link:
https://www.amazon.com/Homage-Catalonia-George-Orwell-dp-0544382048/dp/0544382048/

Non Amazon bookstores:
https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/homage-to-catalonia-9780544382046

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/homage-to-catalonia_george-orwell/250324/?resultid=2f9f4963-07eb-4912-8c2a-906a320806cb#edition=9409502&idiq=28787144

Free PDF
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/george-orwell-homage-to-catalonia

Description from the Amazon page 

“In 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.

Considered 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.

“No one except George Orwell . . . made the violence and self-dramatization of Spain so burning and terrible.”— Alfred Kazin, New York Times”

Details

Date:
October 26
Time:
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Organizer

Lincoln DSA
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Venue

Bennett Martin Public Library
136 S 14th St
Lincoln, NE 68508 United States
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