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Stories set during World War I. They range from Joseph Conrad's The Tale, a shipwrecked sailor's reflections on courage and patriotism, to Kay Boyle's Count Lothar's Heart, on a returning German POW Includes bibliographical references
Historians often describe it as the world’s first industrial war, which drew upon advanced technology to produce unimaginable new forms of violence and suffering.¹ The Great War ended in 1918; many people rarely think about it now, yet it had a profound effect on politics, economics, and social organization, not simply in Europe, but all over th...
"A wide ranging, challenging and constantly surprising collection... focusing on the divisions the war created between men and women." Pat BarkerThis is an anthology of short stories of World War I from 25 classic writers.
This book presents a collection of stories from the Great War to bring together writing by women and men, combatants and civilians, pacifists and propagandists, giving a broad sense of the war's cultural impact. One strange fantasy found in some of these stories casts the war as a source of sexual ecstasy, especially for women.
This is an anthology of short stories of World War I from 25 classic writers. Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield are among the women writers whose works account for half the volume.
Thiss is an anthology of short stories of World War I from 25 classic writers. Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield are among the women writers whose works account for...
16 de nov. de 1995 · Written by authors as famous as Woolf, Faulkner, Conrad and Wharton, and by equally talented lesser-knowns, these fascinating short stories immerse the reader in the milieu of WW I. Combatants, civilians, women, men, pacifists and propagandists not only describe the bloodshed, strategizing and paranoia of battle but also illuminate the Great ...
