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Beyond the chapter summaries there should be seperate sections on influences, effects of the book, context maybe, etc. I've never read the book so I can't add anything, but someone should. Jztinfinity 01:13, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
I have removed some text from the infobox that was demonstrably incorrect by checking the ref and ISBN number. The infobox appears to have been copied from the article on Nineteen Eighty Four and not updated. This leads me to be rather suspicious of some of the other details also included - can anyone check the page numbers, publisher details etc? I don't have a copy of this book. DWaterson 11:44, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
The article currently says
"In December 1936, Orwell travelled to Spain primarily to fight, not to write..."
which is contrary to what appears in the fifth paragraph of the first chapter of Homage to Catalonia, the book this article is about.
"I had come to Spain with some notion of writing newspaper articles, but I had joined the militia almost immediately, because at that time and in that atmosphere it seemed the only conceivable thing to do."
So I think that the claim needs a reliable citation.
Why is there a summary of this novel, what has this got to do with Homage to Catalonia aside from the fact that they were written in the same period? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.138.244.20 ( talk) 06:03, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
Often on wikipedia there is a section on how well received a novel was, in terms of sales and critical reviews. Such a section would be beneficial here. 80.229.169.22 ( talk) 22:34, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
The basic idea of each chapter and of "Appendix two" can be summed up without such detail and so many quotes. Leave something for the new reader! :)
Much in "Overview" can be removed, moved to Orwell's bio or other Spanish Civil War articles, or footnoted. -- LaNaranja ( talk) 23:35, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
It's against that that one is up against and why I think somewhat lengthy quotes from the book are a defnce against flights of fantasy. But if it's too much , cut it back - I do worry i over quote in my edits anyhow , and risk copyright violations... I keep thinking 'oh thats an interesting point..' etc and it builds up. Sayerslle ( talk) 21:55, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Is it wiki worthy to mention how obnoxious it was? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.125.2.168 ( talk) 05:50, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
The article says: "Because of the book's criticism of the Communists in Spain, it was rejected by Gollancz, who had previously published all Orwell's books: 'Gollancz is of course part of the Communism-racket', Orwell wrote to Rayner Heppenstall in July 1937. Orwell finally found a sympathetic publisher in Frederic Warburg. Warburg was willing to publish books by the dissident left, that is, by socialists hostile to Stalinism.
The book was finally published in April 1938 but 'made virtually no impact whatsoever and by the outbreak of war with Germany had sold only 900 copies.'"
Could it be − as I read it in an Orwell biography − that the book was simply rejected by Gollancz as he could not see good chances to sell it? ---- 84.167.167.226 ( talk) 12:42, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
orwell believed , on the contrary, that the fight against fascism, and the fight against Stalinism, were the same fight ( 1939 pact, katyn, hungary 56 etc would bear this out - my interjection), and that to support the stalinist Communists was to be counter-revolutionary for eg his letter to geoffrey Gorer, 16 august 1937 " You cannot conceive the awfulness of the things that are happening in spain. It is a real reign of terror, fascism being imposed under the pretence of resisting Fascism, people being flung into jail literally by hundreds and kept there for months without trial, newspapers suppressed etc etc .. " and orwell letter to Charles Doran, 2 august 1937 " as soon as Gollancz heard I had been with the POUM he said he was afraid he would not be able to publish my book on spain" maybe you read some crappy CP book, like Conservapedia they lie about orwell. the daily worker was calling Orwell pro-Fascist at this time.Clive james wrote a good essay called 'the all of orwell' in 'even as we speak' - about how orwell kept repeating that the stalinist Soviet regime was a tyranny even when this was very unpopular after 1941.. "This , and the later rejection of Animal farm, led to Orwells break with Gollancz and his publisher became Secker & Warburg'.(orwell in spain p.27) Sayerslle ( talk) 00:26, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Thx ;) -- 85.181.195.27 ( talk) 22:49, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
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These chapters summaries are really great, thanks for writing them Tzartzam. But (there's always a but) I think we've got a bit of a problem with different editions. I should say, before I start, that my edition is a Penguin paperback in print from at least the 60s to at least the 80s, and is presumably very widely read.
You write in the article:
Now, in the edition I have, this stuff is in chapter eleven and there are no appendices. So I'm wondering when this stuff was moved, and when a first edition with it moved was published (and indeed, I'm wondering what edition you're using, because it appears to be a better one than mine). I suspect the other appendix in your edition is chapter five in mine, which details the political scene ("it looked at first sight as though Spain were suffering from a plague of initials", Orwell writes) - Orwell says something like "you can skip this chapter if you don't want to bother with the politics", so it moving to an appendix would make sense (although it's one of my favourite chapters).
I'm not saying the whole article should be switched around if your edition is more widely read than mine, or closer to what Orwell wanted, or whatever, but I think it's clear that this needs to be briefly addressed in the article to avoid confusion to those people who have an edition that's had a double appendectomy.
I would've fixed it up myself instead of writing all this if I could, but I only know what's in my edition, and the rest is guesswork. Thanks again for the article, it's great. I assume you'll be summarising all his other books and writing brief descriptions of all his essays now ;-) -- Camembert
The chapters in question are noted in his essay Why I Write. There's definately scope for a little discussion of this... -- Sam
After looking without initial success for the edition used, I was happy to find this discussion in Talk. Then surprised and disappointed that no one in reply wrote the year and/or publisher of the edition used. My 1952 edition has 14 chapters and no appendix. Elfelix ( talk) 02:20, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
George Orwell’s Spanish civil war memoir is a classic, but is it bad history? by Paul Preston. It is very sad that in 2019 we still write Wikipedia based on memoirs from a famous novelist and not from historians. Αντικαθεστωτικός ( talk) 16:29, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
The quote on the page attributed to Orwell that "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" is not cited in the two times it is used. I can double check this soon but I believe quote like this, especially as it is a term that has seen resurgent use in the United States, deserves a proper citation. Improvement Machine ( talk) 00:03, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
@ Paco2718, " Derby 2009" is unlinked, if you can provide the full citation. Did you import this text from elsewhere? czar 00:26, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
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Beyond the chapter summaries there should be seperate sections on influences, effects of the book, context maybe, etc. I've never read the book so I can't add anything, but someone should. Jztinfinity 01:13, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
I have removed some text from the infobox that was demonstrably incorrect by checking the ref and ISBN number. The infobox appears to have been copied from the article on Nineteen Eighty Four and not updated. This leads me to be rather suspicious of some of the other details also included - can anyone check the page numbers, publisher details etc? I don't have a copy of this book. DWaterson 11:44, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
The article currently says
"In December 1936, Orwell travelled to Spain primarily to fight, not to write..."
which is contrary to what appears in the fifth paragraph of the first chapter of Homage to Catalonia, the book this article is about.
"I had come to Spain with some notion of writing newspaper articles, but I had joined the militia almost immediately, because at that time and in that atmosphere it seemed the only conceivable thing to do."
So I think that the claim needs a reliable citation.
Why is there a summary of this novel, what has this got to do with Homage to Catalonia aside from the fact that they were written in the same period? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.138.244.20 ( talk) 06:03, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
Often on wikipedia there is a section on how well received a novel was, in terms of sales and critical reviews. Such a section would be beneficial here. 80.229.169.22 ( talk) 22:34, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
The basic idea of each chapter and of "Appendix two" can be summed up without such detail and so many quotes. Leave something for the new reader! :)
Much in "Overview" can be removed, moved to Orwell's bio or other Spanish Civil War articles, or footnoted. -- LaNaranja ( talk) 23:35, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
It's against that that one is up against and why I think somewhat lengthy quotes from the book are a defnce against flights of fantasy. But if it's too much , cut it back - I do worry i over quote in my edits anyhow , and risk copyright violations... I keep thinking 'oh thats an interesting point..' etc and it builds up. Sayerslle ( talk) 21:55, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Is it wiki worthy to mention how obnoxious it was? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.125.2.168 ( talk) 05:50, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
The article says: "Because of the book's criticism of the Communists in Spain, it was rejected by Gollancz, who had previously published all Orwell's books: 'Gollancz is of course part of the Communism-racket', Orwell wrote to Rayner Heppenstall in July 1937. Orwell finally found a sympathetic publisher in Frederic Warburg. Warburg was willing to publish books by the dissident left, that is, by socialists hostile to Stalinism.
The book was finally published in April 1938 but 'made virtually no impact whatsoever and by the outbreak of war with Germany had sold only 900 copies.'"
Could it be − as I read it in an Orwell biography − that the book was simply rejected by Gollancz as he could not see good chances to sell it? ---- 84.167.167.226 ( talk) 12:42, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
orwell believed , on the contrary, that the fight against fascism, and the fight against Stalinism, were the same fight ( 1939 pact, katyn, hungary 56 etc would bear this out - my interjection), and that to support the stalinist Communists was to be counter-revolutionary for eg his letter to geoffrey Gorer, 16 august 1937 " You cannot conceive the awfulness of the things that are happening in spain. It is a real reign of terror, fascism being imposed under the pretence of resisting Fascism, people being flung into jail literally by hundreds and kept there for months without trial, newspapers suppressed etc etc .. " and orwell letter to Charles Doran, 2 august 1937 " as soon as Gollancz heard I had been with the POUM he said he was afraid he would not be able to publish my book on spain" maybe you read some crappy CP book, like Conservapedia they lie about orwell. the daily worker was calling Orwell pro-Fascist at this time.Clive james wrote a good essay called 'the all of orwell' in 'even as we speak' - about how orwell kept repeating that the stalinist Soviet regime was a tyranny even when this was very unpopular after 1941.. "This , and the later rejection of Animal farm, led to Orwells break with Gollancz and his publisher became Secker & Warburg'.(orwell in spain p.27) Sayerslle ( talk) 00:26, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Thx ;) -- 85.181.195.27 ( talk) 22:49, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
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These chapters summaries are really great, thanks for writing them Tzartzam. But (there's always a but) I think we've got a bit of a problem with different editions. I should say, before I start, that my edition is a Penguin paperback in print from at least the 60s to at least the 80s, and is presumably very widely read.
You write in the article:
Now, in the edition I have, this stuff is in chapter eleven and there are no appendices. So I'm wondering when this stuff was moved, and when a first edition with it moved was published (and indeed, I'm wondering what edition you're using, because it appears to be a better one than mine). I suspect the other appendix in your edition is chapter five in mine, which details the political scene ("it looked at first sight as though Spain were suffering from a plague of initials", Orwell writes) - Orwell says something like "you can skip this chapter if you don't want to bother with the politics", so it moving to an appendix would make sense (although it's one of my favourite chapters).
I'm not saying the whole article should be switched around if your edition is more widely read than mine, or closer to what Orwell wanted, or whatever, but I think it's clear that this needs to be briefly addressed in the article to avoid confusion to those people who have an edition that's had a double appendectomy.
I would've fixed it up myself instead of writing all this if I could, but I only know what's in my edition, and the rest is guesswork. Thanks again for the article, it's great. I assume you'll be summarising all his other books and writing brief descriptions of all his essays now ;-) -- Camembert
The chapters in question are noted in his essay Why I Write. There's definately scope for a little discussion of this... -- Sam
After looking without initial success for the edition used, I was happy to find this discussion in Talk. Then surprised and disappointed that no one in reply wrote the year and/or publisher of the edition used. My 1952 edition has 14 chapters and no appendix. Elfelix ( talk) 02:20, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
George Orwell’s Spanish civil war memoir is a classic, but is it bad history? by Paul Preston. It is very sad that in 2019 we still write Wikipedia based on memoirs from a famous novelist and not from historians. Αντικαθεστωτικός ( talk) 16:29, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
The quote on the page attributed to Orwell that "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" is not cited in the two times it is used. I can double check this soon but I believe quote like this, especially as it is a term that has seen resurgent use in the United States, deserves a proper citation. Improvement Machine ( talk) 00:03, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
@ Paco2718, " Derby 2009" is unlinked, if you can provide the full citation. Did you import this text from elsewhere? czar 00:26, 1 November 2021 (UTC)