The Return of the Soldier
Rebecca West
112 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0812971221
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Language: English
Publish: June 8, 2004
20th CenturyBritish LiteratureClassicsFictionHistoricalHistorical FictionLiteratureNovelsWarWorld War I
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.