Fighting in Spain

George Orwell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2007
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-102553-7 (ISBN)

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Allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own.

For an entire generation, the Spanish Civil War was the ultimate test of commitment and courage as Communism and Fascism faced each other across Europe. Nobody wrote more vividly or more painfully about this than Orwell (1903-1950), as he came face to face with the reality of the civil war in Catalonia. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: great civilizations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), much better known by the pen name George Orwell, was a British author, journalist and socialist. In December 1936, Orwell went to Spain to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War against Francisco Franco's Nationalist uprising. He is best known for two novels written towards the end of his short life: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2007
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Great Journeys ; No.18
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	114 x 182 mm
Gewicht	102 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
ISBN-10	0-14-102553-0 / 0141025530
ISBN-13	978-0-14-102553-7 / 9780141025537
Zustand	Neuware