Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London (2 Works)

by George Orwell

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Overview: Homage to Catalonia is both a memoir of Orwell's experience at the front in the Spanish Civil War and a tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. Down and Out in Paris and London chronicles the adventures of a penniless British writer who finds himself rapidly descending into the seedy heart of two great European cities. This edition brings together two powerful works from one of the finest writers of the twentieth century.… (more)

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... I mean it's Orwell, it's great, but ... with regard to the ebook, did anyone at the publisher even _look_ at how the footnotes appear? did anyone _look_ at the text? I often get the impression that when it comes to the classics any schmuck can put out an e-edition and charge for it, whether any work at all (let alone, gasp, actual proofing!) was done to really make the ebook acceptable ... Mariner Books is not an unknown schmuck, but the ebook version of this work is schmuckish.

Enough of this shoddiness would be sufficient to make me reject the future, and stick to paper books forever more.

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Overview: Homage to Catalonia is both a memoir of Orwell's experience at the front in the Spanish Civil War and a tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. Down and Out in Paris and London chronicles the adventures of a penniless British writer who finds himself rapidly descending into the seedy heart of two great European cities. This edition brings together two powerful works from one of the finest writers of the twentieth century.

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