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The Return of the Soldier

By Rebecca West

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The Return of the Soldier

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World War I, in the background of Rebecca West's first novel, was "the first war that women could imagine", writes Samuel Hynes in his eloquent introduction, "and so it was the first that a woman could write into a novel". Narrated by a woman who, like West, has never experienced war and yet for whom the war was very real, The Return of the Soldier (1918) takes place not on a battlefield, but in an isolated country house. It examines the relationships between three women and a soldier suffering from shell shock. This novel of an enclosed world invaded by public events also embodies in its characters the shifts in England's class structures at the beginning of the twentieth century, as well as the choice between the romantic past and the horrifying present, between love and reality.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
112
Release Date:
1998-06-01
Publication Date:
1998-06-01
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
014118065X
ISBN13:
9780141180656
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Maximum Reading Age:
99
Weight:
98 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
6 cm
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