Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion: “'The hills opposite us were grey and wrinkled like the skins of elephants,' Orwell had written in Homage to Catalonia in 1938.”
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens: “I felt I knew the Ramblas from Orwell's Homage to Catalonia: in Algiers after returning from an expedition with the Polisario guerrillas...”