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Homage To Catalonia

Yazan: George Orwell
Seslendiren: Jeremy Northam
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Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. It also offers a personal background to the subtexts of his later novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell's experiences include being shot in the neck by a sniper, and being forced into hiding as factions of the Left battled on the streets of Barcelona. Orwell entered Spain intending to gather an experience worth writing as well as to fight Fascism, and wrote Homage to Catalonia within months of his return. His honesty and bitterness make for an unparalleled account of his journey from belief and enthusiasm to a reluctant loss of ideals.

Jeremy Northam has narrated several audiobooks for CSA & Canongate: Orwell's semi-autobiographical account of life on the streets; Down and Out in Paris and London, Brideshead Revisted by Evelyn Waugh, and Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene.

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"If 'peerless prose' could apply to one writer alone, I'd accord it to Orwell"
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Praise for previous CSA WORD recordings:

Simon Callow's remarkable narration brings out the many layers of Orwell's fable, from the light-hearted humour as the animals oust Mr Jones from Manor Farm. . . to the darkness of the Stalinist allegory

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This is my third Orwell book after Animal Farm and 1984. It was good to dip a toe into his essayistic writing, this was certainly as compelling as a novel and you would be forgiven for thinking it was.



It is well narrated and you certainly won't want it to come to an end. The mixture of historical lesson and insight to the human condition is an engaging blend. You can recognise the politics of the author of the above mentioned novels (unwritten at this time) and the integrity and courage of the man shines like a beacon through the book.



Good for anyone either interested in Orwell as a writer outside of fiction or for an insight into a period of history that was massively influential to the freedom we enjoy in Europe today.



highly recommended



Reality bites

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A very well read and well written book. The narrator sounds exactly like I would expect George Orwell to sound. This is a great version of a powerful book

Excellent

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Gives huge insight into how things really were and the extreme level of misinformation surrounding it. It is interesting to see how the conflicts were fought and control gained mainly through manipulating information and perceptions.

Interesting and enlightening

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I first read George Orwell over 40 years ago and apart from Down and Out..... never anything autobiographical.
This personal excerpt of the Spanish Civil war carries integrity and belief; and the roots of his subsequent criticism of (corrupt) communism.
Historically it’s riveting, and politically disillusioning to realise how the betrayals of the socialist factions ultimately undermined their cause. How different the world might have been !

A brave man of great integrity

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A nigh-on perfect reading of Orwell's brilliantly understated prose. With the opening of the Soviet Military Archives, Orwell's political analysis has been proved absolutely right about Stalin's role in the Spanish civil war. His vivid and unforgettable description of life on the Aragon front line must be the best of its kind by any author. The slow reading suits the book perfectly.

Superb

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