1984 and Homage to Catalonia Combo Set of 2 Books

This combo product is bundled in India but the publishing origin of this title may vary.Publication date of this bundle is the creation date of this bundle; the actual publication date of child items may vary.Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting in the Spanish Civil War for the POUM militia of the Republican army.Published in 1938 (about a year before the war ended) with little commercial success it gained more attention in the 1950s following the success of Orwell's better-known works Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).Covering the period between December 1936 and June 1937 Orwell recounts Catalonia's revolutionary fervor during his training in Barcelona his boredom on the front lines in Aragon his involvement in the interfactional May Days conflict back in Barcelona on leave his getting shot in the throat back on the front lines and his escape to France after the POUM was declared an illegal organization.The war was one of the defining events of his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write in 1946 Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism as I understand it.“Big Brother is Watching You.”“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”“If you want a picture of the future imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”? George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-FourNineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1949) a dystopian novel by George Orwell is a brilliant work of fiction exposing totalitarianism. The protagonist Winston Smith is a minor party functionary living in London which is shattered by a nuclear war right after World War II. Working as a rewriter of history in the Ministry of Truth his work is to rewrite history by bringing it in line with current political thinking. However Winston’s longing for truth and decency directs him to secretly rebel against the government. He embarks on a prohibited affair with Julia a woman with the same mindset and they rent a room in a region populated by proletariats. Winston and Julia however are unknowingly being watched closely by “Big Brother”.