Voices from the Trenches: 40 First World War Novels
Trench Tales, Home-Front Dramas, Espionage, and Anti-War Testimony from the Great WarBy John Buchan, D. H. Lawrence, H. C. McNeile, Henri Barbusse, Sapper, Ford Madox Ford, Thomas Nelson Page, A. P. Herbert, Zane Grey, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Elizabeth Von Arnim, Herbert W. McBride, Owen Wister, Robert W. Chambers, Frederic Manning, William John Locke, Edith Wharton, Hall Caine, Marie Belloc Lowndes, John Oxenham, Frances Hodgson Burnett, O. Douglas, J. Storer Clouston, Ring Lardner, William Le Queux, Herbert George Jenkins, Louis Tracy, Romain Rolland, Owen Johnson, Earl Derr Biggers, Stephen Hudson, Hesketh Prichard
Length315h 14m
About this audiobook
Voices from the Trenches: 40 First World War Novels surveys the Great War not as a single event but as a literary crucible of combat, espionage, displacement, grief, patriotism, and disillusion. Its wide-ranging selection moves among trench narratives, psychological studies, romances, political fiction, adventure tales, and mysteries, revealing how popular and experimental modes alike registered modern warfare. Vivid depictions of frontline endurance stand beside works attentive to the home front, intelligence networks, and the war's moral ambiguities. The volume gathers British, American, French, and other transatlantic voices whose careers illuminate the era's intersecting traditions of realism, modernism, imperial adventure, and mass-market fiction. Contributors include veterans, journalists, cosmopolitan novelists, and influential writers of popular romance and suspense; collectively, they preserve sharply differing social positions and national memories. Their works trace the movement from early martial idealism to more fractured accounts of trauma and postwar uncertainty, while demonstrating that First World War literature exceeded any single canon or aesthetic. This anthology is especially valuable for readers seeking both an introduction to Great War fiction and a capacious field for comparative study. It invites exploration of contrasting narrative strategies, ideological commitments, and emotional registers within one volume. Students, scholars, and general readers will find an instructive dialogue between celebrated and less frequently revisited texts, enriching an understanding of how fiction made sense of industrialized war.
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GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length315 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (Annotated)
26XXIV The Dawn
2Under Fire
27A Soldier Of The Empire
3I The Vision
28The Day of the Beast
4II In the Earth
29DEDICATION (pt. 1)
5III The Return
30DEDICATION (pt. 2)
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6IV Volpatte and Fouillade
31DEDICATION (pt. 3)
7V Sanctuary
32DEDICATION (pt. 4)
8VI Habits
33The Pentecost of Calamity
9VII Entraining
34I
10VIII On Leave
35XIII
11IX The Anger of Volpatte
36Beryl of the Biplane
12X Argoval
37CHAPTER I. THE MYSTERIOUS NUMBER SEVEN.
13XI The Dog
38CHAPTER II. MR. MARK MARX.
14XII The Doorway
39CHAPTER III. THE SHABBY STRANGER.
15XIII The Big Words
40CHAPTER IV. THE THURSDAY RENDEZVOUS.
16XIV Of Burdens
41CHAPTER V. CONCERNS THE HIDDEN HAND.
17XV The Egg
42CHAPTER VI. THE PRICE OF VICTORY.
18XVI An Idyll
43The Lieutenant
19XVII In the Sap
44PREFACE
20XVIII A Box of Matches
45I. — THE LIEUTENANT
21XIX Bombardment
46II. — THE END OF "WIPERS"
22XX Under Fire
47III. — THE BLACK SHEEP
23XXI The Refuge
48IV. — JAMES AND THE LAND MINE
24XXII Going About
49V. — THE SIXTH DRUNK
25XXIII The Fatigue-Party
50VI. — THE MINE
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