The War-Workers & Consequences (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Two Novels From the Renowned Author of The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Thank Heaven Fasting, Faster! Faster! & The Way Things AreBy E. M. Delafield
Length21h 48m
About this audiobook
The War-Workers & Consequences brings together two acute early novels by E. M. Delafield, displaying her gift for social comedy sharpened into moral critique. The War-Workers satirizes the bureaucracy, vanity, and class assumptions surrounding women's voluntary labor during the First World War, while Consequences turns inward, tracing the emotional starvation and social conditioning of a young woman shaped by family, convent education, and narrow expectations. Written in lucid, ironic prose, these works belong to the interwar and post-Edwardian tradition of feminist realism, exposing the costs of dutiful femininity. E. M. Delafield, best known for The Diary of a Provincial Lady, drew on her own background among the English upper-middle classes, her convent education, and her wartime experience in voluntary service. Her fiction repeatedly examines the gap between respectable surfaces and private distress, especially for women trained to suppress intelligence, anger, and desire. These novels reveal the serious foundations beneath her later comic brilliance. This volume is recommended to readers interested in women's writing, First World War home-front fiction, and the social history of early twentieth-century Britain. It offers both wit and pathos, rewarding anyone who values psychologically observant, historically alert fiction.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length21 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 30, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
11Book I (pt. 1)
2Introduction
12Book I (pt. 2)
3Historical Context
13Book I (pt. 3)
4Synopsis (Selection)
14Book I (pt. 4)
5The War-Workers & Consequences
15Book II (pt. 1)
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6The War Workers (1918) (pt. 1)
16Book II (pt. 2)
7The War Workers (1918) (pt. 2)
17Analysis
8The War Workers (1918) (pt. 3)
18Reflection
9The War Workers (1918) (pt. 4)
19Memorable Quotes
10Consequences (1919)
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