Abroad

Abroad
Author: Paul Fussell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1982-06-17
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0199878536

A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.

The Gregory Sallust Series

The Gregory Sallust Series
Author: Dennis Wheatley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 5461
Release: 2014-12-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448215072

'Before there was James Bond, there was Gregory Sallust.' Tina Rosenberg, Salon.com Dennis Wheatley's complete, bestselling Gregory Sallust series featuring the debonair spy Gregory Sallust, a forerunner to Ian Fleming's James Bond. During WWII, Dennis Wheatley was hired by Winston Churchill to be a part of a highly confidential group of strategists. He was one of the only civilians to be recruited, on the strength that he had shown a flair for deception and cover stories in his novels, particularly through his incarnation of Gregory Sallust - widely regarded as the inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond. This complete collection includes the following titles in chronological order of events as they occur within the novels: CONTRABAND THE SCARLET IMPOSTOR FAKED PASSPORT THE BLACK BARONESS V FOR VENGEANCE COME INTO MY PARLOUR TRAITORS' GATE THEY USED DARK FORCES THE ISLAND WHERE TIME STANDS STILL BLACK AUGUST THE WHITE WITCH OF THE SOUTH SEAS

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Author: Mary Ann Shaffer
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009-05-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408803313

The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide - now a major film starring Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton To give them hope she must tell their story It's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer's block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book – she enters into a correspondence with him, and in time with all the members of the extraordinary Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Through their letters, the society tell Juliet about life on the island, their love of books – and the long shadow cast by their time living under German occupation. Drawn into their irresistible world, Juliet sets sail for the island, changing her life forever.

The War that Used Up Words

The War that Used Up Words
Author: Hazel Hutchison
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300195028

"In this provocative study, Hazel Hutchison takes a fresh look at the roles of American writers in helping to shape national opinion and policy during the First World War. From the war's opening salvos in Europe, American writers recognized the impact the war would have on their society and sought out new strategies to express their horror, support, or resignation. By focusing on the writings of Henry James, Edith Wharton, Grace Fallow Norton, Mary Borden, Ellen La Motte, E. E. Cummings, and John Dos Passos, Hutchison examines what it means to be a writer in wartime, particularly in the midst of a conflict characterized by censorship and propaganda. Drawing on original letters and manuscripts, some never before seen by researchers, this book explores howthe essays, poetry, and novels of these seven literary figures influenced America's public view of events, from August 1914 through the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and ultimately set the literary agenda for later, more celebrated texts about the war"--

World War One British Poets

World War One British Poets
Author: Candace Ward
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2012-03-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 048611323X

DIVRich selection of powerful, moving verse includes Brooke's "The Soldier," Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In Flanders Fields," by Lieut. Col. McCrae, more by Hardy, Kipling, many others. /div

British Writers and the Approach of World War II

British Writers and the Approach of World War II
Author: Steve Ellis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2014-10-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316061566

This book considers the literary construction of what E. M. Forster calls 'the 1939 State', namely the anticipation of the Second World War between the Munich crisis of 1938 and the end of the Phoney War in the spring of 1940. Steve Ellis investigates not only myriad responses to the imminent war but also various peace aims and plans for post-war reconstruction outlined by such writers as T. S. Eliot, H. G. Wells, J. B. Priestley, George Orwell, E. M. Forster and Leonard and Virginia Woolf. He argues that the work of these writers is illuminated by the anxious tenor of this period. The result is a novel study of the 'long 1939', which transforms readers' understanding of the literary history of the eve-of-war era.

7 best short stories - British Authors

7 best short stories - British Authors
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3966106337

British literary tradition is very rich. It unites the heritage of its own classics, such as medieval and Shakespeare productions, as well as the cultural influences of the various colonies and peoples who, throughout history, have mixed into British imagination. The critic August Nemo brings an excerpt of this rich cultural heritage through seven specially selected short stories: - The Blue Cross by G.K. Chesterton - The Red-Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Quality by John Galsworthy - A Love-Knot by W. W. Jacobs - The Shades of Spring by D. H. Lawrence - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf - The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!

Regeneration

Regeneration
Author: Pat Barker
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1993-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 110104201X

“Calls to mind such early moderns as Hemingway and Fitzgerald...Some of the most powerful antiwar literature in modern English fiction.”—The Boston Globe The first book of the Regeneration Trilogy—a Booker Prize nominee and one of Entertainment Weekly’s 100 All-Time Greatest Novels. In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified "mentally unsound" and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. William Rivers, set about restoring Sassoon’s “sanity” and sending him back to the trenches. This novel tells what happened as only a novel can. It is a war saga in which not a shot is fired. It is a story of a battle for a man's mind in which only the reader can decide who is the victor, who the vanquished, and who the victim. One of the most amazing feats of fiction of our time, Regeneration has been hailed by critics across the globe. More than one hundred years since World War I, this book is as timely and relevant as ever.

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1774649063

''A Farewell to Arms'' is Hemingway's classic set during the Italian campaign of World War I. The book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant ("Tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. It's about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of ''A Farewell to Arms'' cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I."