false <![CDATA[Homage to Catalonia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1203194293m/2670766.jpg 9646 37 2566499 book 1938 Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) total:2497|5:975|4:1001|3:438|2:70|1:13| 2497 10346 3622 270 1982031 39 7 Homage to Catalonia 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191296972m/1982031.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1982031.Homage_to_Catalonia 4 6 false Fri Jul 04 11:53:47 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 14:45:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 9646 0156421178 9780156421171 2286 235 Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166031279m/9646.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9646.Homage_to_Catalonia 5 4 false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 09:44:17 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 18:15:48 -0700 2009 HEADLINE: For students, here the politics is explained.

For you students who have this great book imposed upon you in a syllabus, here is the best help I can give you with regard to Chapters V and XI, which are in some editions included only as Appendices.

It is interesting to ...more...]]> 9646 0156421178 9780156421171 2286 235 Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166031279m/9646.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9646.Homage_to_Catalonia 4 2 false Fri Apr 04 08:36:27 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 30 10:40:16 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 10:46:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 876061 0141183055 9780141183053 34 3 Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics) 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179108603m/876061.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/876061.Homage_to_Catalonia 4 2 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 04:29:38 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 26 01:14:41 -0700 2007
George Orwell conscientiously; and later coincidently, sets himself among the more anarchist faction (P.O.U.M), working his way thro...more...]]> 9646 0156421178 9780156421171 2286 235 Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166031279m/9646.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9646.Homage_to_Catalonia 5 1 false Sat Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 19 11:59:08 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 11:59:32 -0700 2009
Homage to Catalonia is the best war book I’ve ever read. It is both entertaining and honest, and has little to do with the partisan bickering that composes much of the book’s background.

Orwell went to Barcelona in 1936 to rep...more...]]> 5974799 1 1 Homage to Catalonia 4.14 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5974799.Homage_to_Catalonia 5 1 false Tue Feb 24 06:37:50 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 06:47:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 9646 0156421178 9780156421171 2286 235 Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166031279m/9646.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9646.Homage_to_Catalonia 3 0 false Thu Dec 04 20:09:40 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 20:09:40 -0800 2008 Homage to Catalonia is the fourth Orwell book I've read, after 1984, Animal Farm, and Burmese Days, and I've come to the conclusion that Orwell is an interesting, provocative writer, just not a particularly great one. Homage to Catalonia is a scattershot book, careening between political and histori...more...]]> 9646 0156421178 9780156421171 2286 235 Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166031279m/9646.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9646.Homage_to_Catalonia 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 21:28:37 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 21:29:55 -0800 2009
Here's my favorite quote from Homage:


"I had dropped more or less by chance into the only community of any size in Western Europe where political consciousness and disbelief in capitalism were more normal than their opposites.  Up here in Aragon one w...
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What was maybe more surprising to me ...more...]]> 9646 0156421178 9780156421171 2286 235 Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166031279m/9646.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9646.Homage_to_Catalonia 4 0 false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 06:09:37 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 10:08:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 9646 0156421178 9780156421171 2286 235 Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166031279m/9646.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9646.Homage_to_Catalonia 4 0 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 04 19:20:38 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 19:25:40 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 9646 0156421178 9780156421171 2286 235 Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166031279m/9646.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9646.Homage_to_Catalonia 5 0 false Wed Jan 28 14:41:46 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 17:37:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 9646 0156421178 9780156421171 2286 235 Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166031279m/9646.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9646.Homage_to_Catalonia 4 1 false Sun Nov 04 12:57:31 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 04 13:04:57 -0800 2007 1982031 39 7 Homage to Catalonia 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191296972m/1982031.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1982031.Homage_to_Catalonia 2 0 false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 20:11:59 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 18:02:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2670766