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The Return of the Soldier

by Rebecca West, Samuel Hynes

3.6
(20 ratings)
116 pages1918Penguin USA, Inc.ISBN 9781101141007

About this book

Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship 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.

Publication Details

Publisher
Penguin USA, Inc.
Published
1918
Pages
116
ISBN
9781101141007

About Rebecca West

Cecily Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for *The Times,* the *New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph* and *The New Republic,* and she was a correspondent for *The Bookman.* Her major works include *Black Lamb and Grey Falcon* (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; *A Train of Powder* (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in *The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason* (first published as a magazine article in 1945 and then expanded to the book in 1947), later *The New Meaning of Treason* (1964), a study of the trial of American-born fascist William Joyce and others; *The Return of the Soldier* (1918), a modernist World War I novel; and the "Aubrey trilogy" of autobiographical novels, *The Fountain Overflows* (1956), *This Real Night* (published posthumously in 1984), and *Cousin Rosamund* (1985).

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