Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London - Rilegato

Orwell, George

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ISBN 10: 0547447337 ISBN 13: 9780547447339

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010

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Homage to Catalonia is both a memoir of Orwell’s experience at the front in the Spanish Civil War and a tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency.Down and Out in Paris and London chronicles the adventures of a penniless British writer who finds himself rapidly descending into the seedy heart of two great European cities. This edition brings together two powerful works from one of the finest writers of the twentieth century.

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Praise for FACING UNPLEASANT FACTS & ALL ART IS PROPAGANDA: "[T]hese books reaffirm the author's status as one of the definitive essayists in English literature. This is hardly a new assessment, but it's worth restating, especially at a moment when Orwell's achievement -- to state directly, and in plain language, what he thought and experienced -- seems like the most radical of notions, a political and aesthetic stance so unfiltered as to be naive. ... What Orwell's after is less diatribe than dialogue. In his writing, politics and literature are in constant conversation, framing reactions to what he has lived through, what he has read. Throughout these essays, we are confronted with his humanism, which, as much as his intellect, motivates his work."--David Ulin, Los Angeles Times "We know Orwell for his novels, but it's the way he saw the politics of language that makes him relevant."--Newsweek

"New Yorker contributor George Packer keenly assembles and introduces this selection, bringing into high relief Orwell's range of experience and committed humanism, showing how, as Orwell put it, 'to make political writing into an art.'"--Publishers Weekly (starred)

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Book by Orwell George

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0547447337
• ISBN 13: 9780547447339
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 441