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Author West, Rebecca, 1892-1983.

Title The return of the soldier / Rebecca West ; with an introduction by Samuel Hynes.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Books, 1998.

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 Moore Stacks  PR6045.E8 R4 1998    Available  ---
Description xix, 90 pages ; 20 cm.
Series Penguin twentieth-century classics
Penguin twentieth-century classics.
Summary "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"--Jacket.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xvii-xix).
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Country homes -- Fiction.
Country homes.
War neuroses -- Fiction.
War neuroses.
Soldiers -- Fiction.
Soldiers.
Amnesia -- Fiction.
Amnesia.
England -- Fiction.
England.
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Added Author Hynes, Samuel, 1924-2019, author of introduction, etc.
ISBN 014118065X (paperback)
9780141180656 (paperback)