The Penguin Book of First World War Stories

by VARIOUS (Author); Korte, Barbara (Editor); Einhaus, Ann-Marie (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780141442150
• ISBN10: 0141442158
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-18
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

An illuminating anthology of World War I fiction by some of England’s best-known writers This new collection of short stories about World War I features works by such famous British authors as Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Buchan, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, Radclyffe Hall, Katherine Mansfield, Robert Graves, Muriel Spark, and Julian Barnes. Written during the war and after, these stories illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture, as well as the many ways in which short fiction contributed to the literature of that time period.

Author Biography

Barbara Korte has published widely on the literature of World War I and the British short story.
Ann-Marie Einhaus is completing a monograph on British short fiction about World War I.

Table of Contents

Front
'The Bowmen'	p. 3
'Private Meyrick - Company Idiot'	p. 7
'A Trade Report Only'	p. 24
'Victory'	p. 41
'Heroes'	p. 49
'Blind'	p. 65
'An Indiscreet Journey'	p. 77
'The Tale'	p. 93
'Chanson Triste'	p. 111
Spies and Intelligence
'His Last Bow'	p. 123
'Giulia Lazzari'	p. 140
'The Loathly Opposite'	p. 162
At Home
'Mary Postgate'	p. 179
'Them Others'	p. 195
'Told by the Schoolmaster'	p. 214
'Tickets, Please'	p. 224
'Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself'	p. 238
'Nobody'	p. 256
In Retrospect
'Once a Hero'	p. 281
'The Fly'	p. 297
'The Casualty List'	p. 303
'Christmas Truce'	p. 309
'The First Year of My Life'	p. 327
'Company'	p. 334
'Evermore'	p. 345
Maps
Places of the Western Front
Military Abbreviations
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