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George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia

Name: Homage to Catalonia
Brand: Polyglot Publishing
SKU: 6e12556e-0cd6-47c4-9574-9575e746ff97
Price: 40.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: George Orwell

Original publication: 1938
Bilingual edition: September 7, 2026
Pages: 504
Difficulty: ★★☆
Genres: Biography and Autobiography, History
Translated from: English

Book summary

In December 1936, Orwell arrives in Barcelona intending to write newspaper articles, but almost at once he joins a P.O.U.M. militia and leaves for the Aragon front. He describes the cold, the lice, the boredom of the trenches and the strange equality of a revolutionary army. Back in Barcelona, he witnesses the street fighting of May 1937 and the purge that turns his own side into outlaws. Wounded in the throat, he leaves Spain hunted by the police of the government he had come to defend. A first-hand account of a war within the war — and of how its truth was rewritten before it had even ended.

The plot

Revolution in Barcelona. An English writer arrives in Barcelona in the middle of the Spanish Civil War. The workers have taken power there. Everyone calls everyone else “comrade”, and tipping is forbidden. The writer…

The world of the book

Spain torn by civil war. In July 1936, part of the army, with General Franco, rose up against the government of the Spanish Republic. In Barcelona, Catalonia’s great city, the workers and the police defeated the rebel…

The author

George Orwell was born in India. He was a policeman in Burma, then shared the life of the poor in Paris and London. At the end of 1936, he went to Spain to write newspaper articles about the war. In this book, he…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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