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Offering a vivid, moving, and often surprising, cross-section of the writing generated by the most momentous political and cultural flashpoint of the 1930s--the Spanish Civil War--this anthology contains works by a vast array of prominent literary figures, including W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Stephen Spender, Samuel Beckett, Aldous Huxley, Hugh MacDiarmid, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, John Dos Passos, Jean-Paul Sartre, Claude Simon, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Rosamond Lehmann, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Cyril Connolly, Louis MacNeice, Leon Trotsky, Hilaire Belloc, and countless others. Spanish Front presents writers taking sides; reflecting on the War's progress in essays, diaries, letters, journalism, poems, stories, and novels; reporting their visits to the fighting zones; and expressing their responses that ranged from hope to despair and satisfaction to horrorProduct Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN-139780192820068
eBay Product ID (ePID)86963068
Product Key Features
Number of Pages420 Pages
Publication NameSpanish Front: Writers on the Civil War
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year1986
TypeTextbook
AuthorValentine Cunningham
SeriesOxford Paperbacks
Dimensions
Item Height190 mm
Item Weight269 g
Additional Product Features
EditorValentine Cunningham
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom