Orwell in Spain

Orwell in Spain

The Full Text of Homage to Catalonia with Associated Articles,
Reviews and Letters from The Complete Works of George Orwell

Edited by Peter Davison
Introduction by Christopher Hitchens

PENGUIN BOOKS

Contents

Introduction

Editorial Note

Acknowledgements

Orwell’s Journey to Spain

Extract from ‘As I Please’, 42 [The journey to Spain], Tribune, 15 September 1944

Jennie Lee to Margaret M. Goalby, 23 June 1950: Orwell’s Arrival in Barcelona

Orwell in Spain, December 1936

Extract from letter from Eileen Blair to Leonard Moore, 31 January 1937

‘British Author with the Militia’, The Spanish Revolution: Bulletin of the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification (POUM)

Letter from Eileen Blair to her mother, 22 March 1937

Letter to Eileen Blair [5? April 1937]

Extract from letter from Eileen Blair to Leonard Moore, 12 April 1937

Letter from Eileen Blair to her brother, Dr Laurence (‘Eric’) O’Shaughnessy, 1 May 1937

Extract from letter to Victor Gollancz, 1 May 1937

Orwell’s Wound

Letter to Cyril Connolly, 8 June 1937

Letter from Eileen Blair to Dr Laurence (‘Eric’) O’Shaughnessy, c. 10 June 1937

Escape from Spain

Reports on Eric and Eileen Blair to Tribunal for Espionage and High Treason, Valencia

Report on Charles Doran

Homage to Catalonia

‘Spilling the Spanish Beans’, New English Weekly, 29 July and 2 September 1937

Letter from Eileen Blair to John McNair, 29 July 1937

Letter from George Kopp to Dr Laurence O’Shaughnessy, 7 July 1937

Letter from George Kopp to Lt.-Col. Burillo, Chief of Police, Barcelona, 7 July 1937 (translation)

Letter from George Kopp to Eileen Blair, 8 July 1937

Review: Franz Borkenau, The Spanish Cockpit; John Sommerfield, Volunteer in Spain, 31 July 1937

Letter to Rayner Heppenstall, 31 July 1937

‘Eye-Witness in Barcelona’, Controversy, August 1937

Abstracts of Reports on the Spanish Civil War in the Daily Worker and News Chronicle, 1936–7

Letter to Amy Charlesworth, 1 August 1937

Letter to Charles Doran, 2 August 1937

Unpublished response to Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War, 3–6 August 1937

Letter to Geoffrey Gorer, 15 September 1937

Review: Mary Low and Juan Brea, Red Spanish Notebook; R. Timmermans, Heroes of the Alcazar; Martin Armstrong, Spanish Circus, 9 October 1937

Letter to H. N. Brailsford, 10 December 1937

Review: Mairin Mitchell, Storm Over Spain ; Arnold Lunn, Spanish Rehearsal ; E. Allison Peers, Catalonia Infelix; José Castillejo, Wars of Ideas in Spain ; José Ortega y Gasset, Invertebrate Spain, 11 December 1937

Letter from H. N. Brailsford to Orwell, 17 December 1937

Letter to H. N. Brailsford, 18 December 1937

Review: G. L. Steer, The Tree of Gernika ; Arthur Koestler, Spanish Testament, 5 February 1938

Letter to the Editor, Time and Tide: ‘“Trotskyist” Publications’, 5 February 1938

Letter to Raymond Mortimer, 9 February 1938

Letter to Stephen Spender, 2 April 1938

Letter to Geoffrey Gorer, 18 April 1938

‘Notes on the Spanish Militias’