Homage to Catalonia Audiobook

Quotes

• ”Homage to Catalonia is a triumph…Frederick Davidson makes a fine reader. He sounds convincingly as Orwell might have sounded, even to the occasional use of French-accented Spanish pronunciation…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”

  — AudioFile

• “One of Orwell’s very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.”

  — New Yorker

• “For a firsthand account of the Spanish Civil War, turn to George Orwell’s memoir about his six months serving on the militia…That he could have written so objective a book so soon after his almost fatal involvement in the war itself and in the partisan conflict seems miraculous.”

  — New York Times

• “Clear-eyed and unflinching…At once history and a moral and imaginative experience.”

  — New York Herald Tribune Book Review

• “Homage to Catalonia reminds us that Orwell was a superb journalist and reporter. Nobody has described the experience of this kind of warfare of 1914-1918, better than it is done here.”

  — Julian Symons, poet, historian, and crime novelist