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The Enormous Room
E.E. Cummings
34 days •
ⓘ 1922 • Free-spirited Edward Estlin Cummings goes from Red Cross ambulance volunteer in WWI to prisoner of a French concentration camp in this autobiographical quest for freedom.
Greenmantle
John Buchan
38 days •
ⓘ 1916 • In the midst of WWI, Richard Hannay is called upon to stop a plot to spark a holy war in the Middle East.
Mr Standfast
John Buchan
47 days •
ⓘ 1919 • In the later years of WWI, Richard Hannay is pulled from active service for a dangerous new mission: track down a German agent in the heart of Britain.
One of Ours
Willa Cather
53 days •
ⓘ 1922 • Denied his chance at university, Claude is called back to his father's successful farm and he is soon married. Both come to be prisons for him, until an overseas adventure gives him a sense of purpose.
The Return of the Soldier
Rebecca West
10 days •
ⓘ 1918 • Captain Chris Baldry returns from the shells and trenches of WWI traumatized, straining his family’s ties and challenging his cousin Jenny.
Soldiers' Pay
William Faulkner
30 days •
ⓘ 1926 • A soldier horribly injured in the First World War - nearly silent and blind - returns home to a family who thought him dead and a fiancé tired of waiting.
Some Do Not...
Ford Madox Ford
32 days •
ⓘ 1924 • Christopher Tietjens, in the midst of a failing marriage and new love, is rocked by the opening of World War I. Praised as a groundbreaking work of WWI.
A Son at the Front
Edith Wharton
34 days •
ⓘ 1923 • Wharton's partially autobiographical book on the devastation of WWI behind the lines.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan
16 days •
ⓘ 1915 • After years in Africa, Richard Hannay aims to start a new life in London. Instead he is pulled into a web of espionage and murder on the eve of World War I and finds himself a hunted man, fleeing for his life.
Three Soldiers
John Dos Passos
43 days •
ⓘ 1921 • A novel exploring the disillusionment and violence inflicted on common soldiers in World War I.
Under Fire
Henri Barbusse
36 days •
ⓘ 1916 • One of the first novels to be published about WWI. Based upon the author's experience as a French soldier on the western front of the war, it's a gritty realistic depiction of war.
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