George Orwell bibliography his experiences tramping and teaching in those two cities. "The Road to Wigan Pier" is initially a study of poverty in the North of England, but ends with an extended autobiographical essay describing some of Orwell's experiences with poverty. "Homage to Catalonia" recounts his experiences as a volunteer fighting fascism with the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification in anarchist Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. Orwell wrote hundreds of essays, book reviews and editorials. His insights into linguistics, literature and politics—in particular anti-fascism, anti-communism, and democratic socialism—continued to be influential decades after his death. Over a dozen of these were
A Soldier of the Great War A Soldier of the Great War A Soldier of the Great War is a novel by American writer Mark Helprin about the Great War. It was published in May 1991 by Harcourt. The book focuses on an aged World War I veteran who recounts his life and adventures while traveling with a young man he meets after the two of them are thrown off a bus, the former leaving after the latter is refused entry, as the older man marches toward a visit with his granddaughter, neither knowing the outcome of their journey. As a young man, Alessandro Giuliani foresees