
Warwick Deeping - Ultimate Collection: 120+ Novels & Short Stories (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Sorrell and Son, Doomsday, Kitty, Sincerity, Uther and Igraine, Roper's Row, The Pride of Eve…By Warwick DeepingLength584h 8m
About this audiobook
This expansive omnibus gathers more than 120 novels and short stories by Warwick Deeping, revealing the remarkable range of a writer once central to English popular fiction. Its contents move among historical romance, domestic tragedy, social comedy, adventure, and postwar moral drama, often written in a lucid, emotionally direct style. Read together, these works illuminate the transition from late Victorian narrative habits to the anxieties of Edwardian and interwar Britain. George Warwick Deeping (1877–1950) was trained at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Middlesex Hospital before serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War. His medical background, wartime experience, and acute observation of class, family duty, illness, grief, and resilience deeply shaped his fiction. The celebrated Sorrell and Son exemplifies his enduring concern with sacrifice, dignity, and the reconstruction of life after catastrophe. This collection is recommended to readers interested in the breadth of early twentieth-century British storytelling beyond the modernist canon. It offers historians, literary scholars, and general readers alike a generous archive of popular taste, emotional seriousness, and narrative craft, preserving an author whose best work remains both accessible and culturally revealing.
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
Length584 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 15, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Warwick Deeping - Ultimate Collection: 120+ Novels & Short Stories (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Historical Context
4Synopsis (Selection)
5NOVELS
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6UTHER AND IGRAINE
7BOOK I THE WAY TO WINCHESTER (pt. 1)
8BOOK I THE WAY TO WINCHESTER (pt. 2)
9BOOK II GORLOIS (pt. 1)
10BOOK II GORLOIS (pt. 2)
11BOOK III THE WAR IN WALES (pt. 1)
12BOOK III THE WAR IN WALES (pt. 2)
13BOOK IV TINTAGEL
14LOVE AMONG THE RUINS
15PART I (pt. 1)
16PART I (pt. 2)
17PART II
18PART III (pt. 1)
19PART III (pt. 2)
20PART IV
21THE SLANDERERS
22PART I (pt. 1)
23PART I (pt. 2)
24PART II (pt. 1)
25PART II (pt. 2)
26PART III
27PART IV (pt. 1)
28PART IV (pt. 2)
29THE SEVEN STREAMS (pt. 1)
30THE SEVEN STREAMS (pt. 2)
31THE SEVEN STREAMS (pt. 3)
32THE SEVEN STREAMS (pt. 4)
33BESS OF THE WOODS (pt. 1)
34BESS OF THE WOODS (pt. 2)
35BESS OF THE WOODS (pt. 3)
36BESS OF THE WOODS (pt. 4)
37BESS OF THE WOODS (pt. 5)
38BESS OF THE WOODS (pt. 6)
39A WOMAN’S WAR (pt. 1)
40A WOMAN’S WAR (pt. 2)
41A WOMAN’S WAR (pt. 3)
42A WOMAN’S WAR (pt. 4)
43A WOMAN’S WAR (pt. 5)
44BERTRAND OF BRITTANY
45BOOK I YOUTH AND THE SILVER SWAN
46BOOK II “HOW A MAN MAY FIND HIS SOUL AGAIN” (pt. 1)
47BOOK II “HOW A MAN MAY FIND HIS SOUL AGAIN” (pt. 2)
48BOOK III “THE OAK OF MIVOIE” (pt. 1)
49BOOK III “THE OAK OF MIVOIE” (pt. 2)
50BOOK III “THE OAK OF MIVOIE” (pt. 3)