0141442158 
Paperback The Penguin book of First World War stories.
Publication year: 2007
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 0141442158 9780141442150 (pbk): 0141442158 :
Notes:
The First World War has had an incalculable effect on literature in the years & generations that followed it. The stories collected in this volume reflect a wide range of responses to that conflict, from harrowing scenes of carnage at the Front & espionage behind the scenes to the struggles of those at home.
1.Front. Bowmen / Arthur Machen ; Sapper / Herman Cyril McNeile ; Private Meyrick - Company Idiot / Herman Cyril McNeile ; A trade report only / C. E. Montague ; Victory / Richard Aldington ; Heroes / Anne Perry ; Blind / Mary Borden ; An indiscreet journey / Katherine Mansfield ; The tale / Joseph Conrad ; Chanson Triste / A. W. Wells - 2) Spies and intelligence. His last bow / Arthur Conan Doyle ; Giulia Lazzari / W. Somerset Maugham ; The loathly opposite / John Buchan - 3) At home. Mary Postgate / Rudyard Kipling ; Them others / Stacy Aumonier ; Told by the schoolmaster / John Galsworthy ; Tickets, please / D. H. Lawrence ; Miss Ogilvy finds herself / Radclyffe Hall ; Nobody / Hugh Walpole -- 4) In retrospect. Once a hero / Harold Brighouse ; The fly / Katherine Mansfield ; The casualty list / Winifred Holtby ; Christmas truce / Robert Graves ; The first year of my life / Muriel Spark ; Company / Robert Grossmith ; Evermore / Julian Barnes.
Maps -- Places of the Western Front -- Glossary -- Military Abbreviations -- Notes -- Biographies -- Acknowledgements.
Audience: Teen readers
Series title: Penguin classics
Extent: xx, 390 p. ; 20 cm.
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