Homage To Catolonia can hardly have a happy ending, being about the Spanish Civil War and a nasty bit of internecine warfare within it, but it does have this passage in the last chapter:
"This war, in which I played so ineffectual a part, has left me with memories that are mostly evil, and yet I do not wish that I had missed it. When you have had a glimpse of such a disaster as this--and however it ends the Spanish war will turn out to have been an appalling disaster, quite apart from the slaughter and physical suffering--the result is not necessarily disillusionment and cynicism. Curiously enough the whole experience has left me with not less but more belief in the decency of human beings. "
It's definitely, despite the subject matter, a much more uplifting book that Animal Farm or 1984.
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"This war, in which I played so ineffectual a part, has left me with memories
that are mostly evil, and yet I do not wish that I had missed it. When you have
had a glimpse of such a disaster as this--and however it ends the Spanish war
will turn out to have been an appalling disaster, quite apart from the slaughter
and physical suffering--the result is not necessarily disillusionment and
cynicism. Curiously enough the whole experience has left me with not less but
more belief in the decency of human beings. "
It's definitely, despite the subject matter, a much more uplifting book that Animal Farm or 1984.
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