
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)
26PART III
2Introduction
27PART IV (pt. 1)
3Historical Context
28PART IV (pt. 2)
4Synopsis (Selection)
29THE SEVEN STREAMS (pt. 1)
5NOVELS
30THE SEVEN STREAMS (pt. 2)
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6UTHER AND IGRAINE
31THE SEVEN STREAMS (pt. 3)
7BOOK I THE WAY TO WINCHESTER (pt. 1)
32THE SEVEN STREAMS (pt. 4)
8BOOK I THE WAY TO WINCHESTER (pt. 2)
33BESS OF THE WOODS (pt. 1)
9BOOK II GORLOIS (pt. 1)
34BESS OF THE WOODS (pt. 2)
10BOOK II GORLOIS (pt. 2)
35BESS OF THE WOODS (pt. 3)
11BOOK III THE WAR IN WALES (pt. 1)
36BESS OF THE WOODS (pt. 4)
12BOOK III THE WAR IN WALES (pt. 2)
37BESS OF THE WOODS (pt. 5)
13BOOK IV TINTAGEL
38BESS OF THE WOODS (pt. 6)
14LOVE AMONG THE RUINS
39A WOMAN’S WAR (pt. 1)
15PART I (pt. 1)
40A WOMAN’S WAR (pt. 2)
16PART I (pt. 2)
41A WOMAN’S WAR (pt. 3)
17PART II
42A WOMAN’S WAR (pt. 4)
18PART III (pt. 1)
43A WOMAN’S WAR (pt. 5)
19PART III (pt. 2)
44BERTRAND OF BRITTANY
20PART IV
45BOOK I YOUTH AND THE SILVER SWAN
21THE SLANDERERS
46BOOK II “HOW A MAN MAY FIND HIS SOUL AGAIN” (pt. 1)
22PART I (pt. 1)
47BOOK II “HOW A MAN MAY FIND HIS SOUL AGAIN” (pt. 2)
23PART I (pt. 2)
48BOOK III “THE OAK OF MIVOIE” (pt. 1)
24PART II (pt. 1)
49BOOK III “THE OAK OF MIVOIE” (pt. 2)
25PART II (pt. 2)
50BOOK III “THE OAK OF MIVOIE” (pt. 3)