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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>HEADLINE: For students, here the politics is explained.</strong><br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>It is interesting to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66002239">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The classic Orwell memoir. Orwell seamlessly blends his experiences as a soldier on the Communist front during the Spanish Civil War with shrewd insight into the political machinations fueling Spanish revolution (and the resulting apathy of the non-Fascist world). One of the better books to demonstr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14061869">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Review – Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Orwell went to Barcelona in 1936 to rep...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49784370">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.</p> <p>******************</p> <p><strong><em>Homage to Catalonia</em></strong> is political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War, written in the first person. The first edition was published in 1938.</p> <p>- Excerpted from <em>Wikipedia, </em>the free encyclopedia. </p> <p><strong>More e-Books from MobileReference - Best Books. Best Price. Best Search and Navigation (TM)</strong></p> <p>All fiction books are only $0.99. All collections are only $5.99<br/>Designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices</p> <p><strong>Search for any title: </strong>enter <strong>mobi</strong> (shortened MobileReference) and a <strong>keyword</strong>; for example: mobi Shakespeare<br/>To view all books, click on the MobileReference link next to a book title</p> <p><strong>Literary Classics:</strong> Over 10,000 complete works by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Dickens, Tolstoy, and other authors. All books feature hyperlinked table of contents, footnotes, and author biography. Books are also available as collections, organized by an author. Collections simplify book access through categorical, alphabetical, and chronological indexes. They offer lower price, convenience of one-time download, and reduce clutter of titles in your digital library.</p> <p><strong>Religion:</strong> The Illustrated King James Bible, American Standard Bible, World English Bible (Modern Translation), Mormon Church's Sacred Texts</p> <p><strong>Philosophy:</strong> Rousseau, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, Marx, Engels</p> <p><strong>Travel Guides and Phrasebooks for All Major Cities:</strong> New York, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Prague, Beijing, Greece</p> <p><strong>Medical Study Guides:</strong> Anatomy and Physiology, Pharmacology, Abbreviations and Terminology, Human Nervous System, Biochemistry</p> <p><strong>College Study Guides:</strong> FREE Weight and Measures, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Statistics, Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Mythology </p> <p><strong>History:</strong> Art History, American Presidents, U.S. History, Encyclopedias of Roman Empire, Ancient Egypt</p> <p><strong>Health:</strong> Acupressure Guide, First Aid Guide, Art of Love, Cookbook, Cocktails, Astrology</p> <p><strong>Reference:</strong> The World's Biggest Mobile Encyclopedia; CIA World Factbook, Illustrated Encyclopedias of Birds, Mammals</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[   You don't need me to tell you that “Animal Farm,” and “1984” are George Orwell’s two best known books. I consider them his two weakest;-- further evidence that irony is the ruling principal by which God constructed the world. To my mind they are not novels but pamphlets written by one o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47360338">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Homage to Catalonia</em> is the fourth Orwell book I've read, after <em>1984</em>, <em>Animal Farm</em>, and <em>Burmese Days</em>, and I've come to the conclusion that Orwell is an interesting, provocative writer, just not a particularly <em>great</em> one. <em>Homage to Catalonia</em> is a scattershot book, careening between political and histori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39339463">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book reminds me of that saying that I read somewhere about books not kissing on the first date.  Is there any other author that can be read and digested as routinely as Orwell can?  Who has a longer shelf life, I challenge.  <br/><br/>On the second time around I realized how little action Orw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81843903">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Homage to Catalonia<br/><br/>Here's my favorite quote from <em>Homage</em>:<br/><br/><blockquote><br/><em>&quot;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...</em></blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76432598">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of about six months Orwell spent as a soldier in one of the Spanish Republican militias in 1936-37.  The fighting was almost nonexistent -- chiefly holding action through the winter -- and so most of the book is a dutiful chronicle of a dull time.  Descriptions of lice and soldier bathroom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73285249">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Orwell's clear, direct prose proves to be the perfect medium for this brief war memoir. As others have mentioned, the Spanish Civil War with its many factions is, at best, hard to understand. I did a tiny amount of research before reading the book so that I'd have at least a minimum of information o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72757880">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[George Orwell once wrote that &quot;good prose is like a window pane.&quot; If we apply Orwell's own standard to his memoir Homage to Catalonia (1938), the author fulfills the imperative perfectly. Orwell interrogates his memory, and the primary sources surrounding the events of the Spanish Civil Wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67380584">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;I wonder what is the appropriate first action when you come from a country at war and set foot on peaceful soil. Mine was to rush to the tobacco-kiosk and buy as many cigars and cigarettes as I could stuff into my pockets.&quot; Most war correspondents observe wars and then tell stories about the battles, the soldiers and the civilians. George Orwell--novelist, journalist, sometime socialist--actually traded his press pass for a uniform and fought against Franco's Fascists in the Spanish Civil War during 1936 and 1937. He put his politics and his formidable conscience to the toughest tests during those days in the trenches in the Catalan section of Spain. Then, after nearly getting killed, he went back to England and wrote a gripping account of his experiences, as well as a complex analysis of the political machinations that led to the defeat of the socialist Republicans and the victory of the Fascists.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was unsure when I bought this if it was classified as Fiction or Non-Fiction, and I believe it's Non; really, what this book reads like is a 232-page Newsweek article. It was a bit hard to follow with all of the organizations involved with the Spanish Civil War -- and all of the loyalties and ties...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51181938">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[George Orwell’s memoir of the Spanish Civil War captured one perspective of what it must have been like to be in Barcelona during the early part of the Spanish Civil War, the same way I felt the movie Reds captured what it must have been like in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56568588">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;I wonder what is the appropriate first action when you come from a country at war and set foot on peaceful soil. Mine was to rush to the tobacco-kiosk and buy as many cigars and cigarettes as I could stuff into my pockets.&quot; Most war correspondents observe wars and then tell stories about the battles, the soldiers and the civilians. George Orwell--novelist, journalist, sometime socialist--actually traded his press pass for a uniform and fought against Franco's Fascists in the Spanish Civil War during 1936 and 1937. He put his politics and his formidable conscience to the toughest tests during those days in the trenches in the Catalan section of Spain. Then, after nearly getting killed, he went back to England and wrote a gripping account of his experiences, as well as a complex analysis of the political machinations that led to the defeat of the socialist Republicans and the victory of the Fascists.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Was quite tempted to follow Terry's suit and just use some great quotes here about war being bloody and beastly. I really had no idea about any of the strife between different parties supporting the Government. As Orwell says in the one of the excellent (and clear) chapters on the politics of these ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70568574">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading about George Orwell's experiences in Catalonia during the roughly six months he spent there during the Spanish Civil War.  The chapters which described his experiences at the front were the most captivating, followed by the ones about the fighting in Barcelona.  The long cha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44381024">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a missing link to any other book by Orwell, or on the subject of the Spanish Civil War. Orwell lived during the tragic infighting between political groups in Barcelona, to which Hemingway and the others only alluded. If you read For Whom the Bell Tolls, they talk about this as backgroun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73462951">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I’m feeling tempted to step away from my policy of not really recommending non-fiction (I have a grand hypothesis about the differences between fiction- and non-fiction-lovers; it basically all comes down to how you feel about God and man’s place in the world) and maybe now is the time, for if t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44679308">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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