His book Homage to Catalonia ( 1938 ), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, is widely acclaimed, as are his numerous essays on politics, literature, language and culture.

" In one or another of its destructive forms, poverty was to become his obsessive subject – at the heart of almost everything he wrote until Homage to Catalonia.

" Orwell's experiences in the Spanish Civil War gave rise to Homage to Catalonia ( 1938 ).

He acquired goats, a rooster he called " Henry Ford ", and a poodle puppy he called " Marx " and settled down to animal husbandry and writing Homage to Catalonia.

During most of his career, Orwell was best known for his journalism, in essays, reviews, columns in newspapers and magazines and in his books of reportage: Down and Out in Paris and London ( describing a period of poverty in these cities ), The Road to Wigan Pier ( describing the living conditions of the poor in northern England, and the class divide generally ) and Homage to Catalonia.

* 1938 – Homage to Catalonia

His memoir of that time, Homage to Catalonia, was first published in 1938 and foreshadowed the causes of Second World War.

Gollancz formed his own publishing company in 1927, publishing works by writers such as Ford Madox Ford and George Orwell ( though Orwell went to Secker and Warburg from Homage to Catalonia on ).

Homage to Catalonia is political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War.

It was submitted to Victor Gollancz, who had an option on Orwell's next three novels, in spite of the ' cold treatment which had been given when Homage to Catalonia was rejected.

The novel sold three thousand copies, a thousand of which represented a second printing and thus bettered, " the dismal response in the bookshops which had met the publication of Homage to Catalonia.

Orwell meticulously documented his first-hand observations of the civil war, and expressed admiration for the social revolution in his book Homage to Catalonia.

At a later date Gollancz published part one on its own, against Orwell's wishes, and he refused to publish Homage to Catalonia at all.

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

A passage in George Orwell's book Homage to Catalonia refers to the author finding what he thought was a primitive harrow in a farm hut in 1930s Spain, but it was in fact a threshing board.

() It was written about the Spanish Civil War and was inspired in equal parts by George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and The Clash's " Spanish Bombs ".

This preoccupation is also visible in Homage to Catalonia, and continued as an underlying theme of Orwell's work for the years after World War II.

The writer George Orwell, who experienced participatory democracy as he was in Spain with the anarchists before their defeat, discusses it in his book Homage to Catalonia, and says participatory democracy was a " strange and valuable " experience where one could " breath the air of equality " and where normal human motives like snobbishness, greed and fear of authority had ceased to exist.

The concept now often appears in the arts where one author shows respect to a topic by calling it an homage, such as Homage to Catalonia.

British author George Orwell fought alongside members of the Independent Labour Party as part of POUM militias ; he recounted the experience in his book Homage to Catalonia.

Cockburn was attacked by George Orwell in Homage to Catalonia ( 1938 ).

Many CPGB and Independent Labour Party members went to fight for the Republic and with the Stalinist led International Brigades and the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) anti-fascist forces, including George Orwell who wrote about his experiences in Homage to Catalonia.

* Homage to Catalonia

This was an engagement immortalized by George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia.

More recently, their music video for " Homage for Satan ", which features blood-splattered zombies on a rampaging mission to capture a priest, was banned from UK music TV channel Scuzz.

Homage was again obtained under force from the nobles and the burghs, and a parliament was held to elect those who would meet later in the year with the English parliament to establish rules for the governance of Scotland.

Ignacy Krasicki, the last prince-bishop of Warmia as well as Elightment Polish poet, friend of Frederick the Great whom he did not give Homage as his new king, was nominated to the Archbishopric of Gnesen ( Gniezno ) in 1795.

This was called the " Prussian Homage ".

In 1525, the Order was ousted from East Prussian territory by its own Hochmeister when Albert, Duke of Prussia adopted Lutheranism and assumed the title of duke as hereditary ruler under the overlordship of Poland in the Prussian Homage.

His circle of close friends, which included Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani and Modigliani's wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, gallery owner Léopold Zborowski, and Moise Kisling, was captured for posterity by Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska ( Marevna ) in her painting " Homage to Friends from Montparnasse " ( 1962 ).< ref >

On April 10, 1525 Albert resigned his position, became a Protestant, and in the Prussian Homage was granted the title " Duke of Prussia " by his new feudal overlord, King Sigismund I the Old of Poland, who was also his uncle.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Pope Clement VII objected to the Prussian Homage, which was derided as the Krakauer Kuhhandel (" Cracow horse-trading ").

In writing the Homage he worked through his anxieties of whether the epic was compatible with modernity or worth writing at all, given the political and social statement of the genre.

Giordano described the work as the " theology of painting ", and was inspired to paint A Homage to Velázquez ( National Gallery, London ).

News for the Ear: A Homage to Roy Fisher edited by Peter Robinson and Robert Sheppard appeared in 2000, and a book of critical essays, The Thing about Roy Fisher, edited by John Kerrigan and Peter Robinson, was published the same year.

The first series debuted in August 1995, published by Image Comics, and since then has been published by Homage Comics, part of the Wildstorm Signature Series.

He wrote a number of articles about the conflict and was influential in getting Orwell's Homage to Catalonia published.

Poet George Elliot Clarke published a poem titled " Homage to Hardial Bains " in 2000 in the Oyster Boy Review.

Zero Girl is a five-issue comic book written and illustrated by Sam Kieth, published by Homage Comics.

In late 2003, the imprint was also used to publish Epicurus the Sage and The Maxx trade paperbacks with material that was previously published by Image Comics, before it was finally merged with Homage Comics in 2004 to form the Wildstorm Signature Series.

He later " substantially expanded and reworked " this into a new book titled Homage to Pan: The Life, Art and Sex-Magic of Rosaleen Norton, which was published in 2009.

He wrote three early novels, published by the Vanguard Press — Summer in Williamsburg ( 1934 ), Homage to Blenholt ( 1936 ), and Low Company ( 1937 ).

Berryman's first major work, in which he began to develop his own unique style of writing, was Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, published in 1956.