Length315h 23m

About this audiobook

40 WW1 Novels gathers a wide-ranging body of fiction shaped by the First World War and its far-reaching social, imperial, and psychological consequences. Moving between espionage, trench narrative, romance, adventure, satire, domestic drama, and moral inquiry, the volume reveals how the conflict transformed popular as well as high literary forms. Its striking range encompasses accounts of combat and military discipline, stories of clandestine operations and endangered civilians, and narratives attentive to grief, displacement, class, gender, and the uneasy return to civilian life. The contributors represent an unusually broad transnational and stylistic constellation: British, American, and French writers; veterans and observers; celebrated modernists, popular thriller writers, and chroniclers of social life. Figures associated with war realism and pacifist reflection stand beside practitioners of imperial adventure, detective fiction, historical romance, and commercial suspense. This diversity situates the collection within the contested literary culture of 1914–1918 and its aftermath, when patriotic rhetoric, disillusionment, trauma, and changing ideas of national identity competed for narrative expression. Ideal for students, historians, and general readers, this anthology offers an exceptional opportunity to compare the many languages through which the Great War was imagined. Read together, these novels illuminate both the period's literary breadth and the continuing dialogue between memory, myth, violence, and survival.

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★ 4.4 (12)
Includes Amazon
GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length315 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1When William Came (Annotated)
26PART III SEED TIME
2No Man's Land
27I THE SEED
3PREFACE
28II THE FIRST LESSON
4PART I THE WAY TO THE LAND
29III AN IMPERSONAL DEMONSTRATION
5I
30IV SOMEWHAT MORE PERSONAL
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6II
31V A PROJECT AND SOME SIDE-ISSUES
7III
32VI THE SECOND LESSON, AND SOME FURTHER SIDE-ISSUES
8IV
33VII THE THIRD LESSON, AND A DIGRESSION
9V
34VIII THE THIRD LESSON IS LEARNED
10VI
35IX "AND OTHER FELL ON GOOD GROUND"
11VII
36PART IV
12VIII
37HARVEST
13IX
38Parade's End: Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up & Last Post
14X
39Some Do Not
15XI
40Part One (pt. 1)
16XII
41Part One (pt. 2)
17PART II THE LAND
42Part One (pt. 3)
18I A DAY OF PEACE
43Part Two (pt. 1)
19II OVER THE TOP
44Part Two (pt. 2)
20III THE MAN-TRAP
45Part Two (pt. 3)
21IV A POINT OF DETAIL
46No More Parades
22V MY LADY OF THE JASMINE
47Part One (pt. 1)
23VI MORPHIA
48Part One (pt. 2)
24VII BENDIGO JONES—HIS TREE
49Part Two (pt. 1)
25VIII THE SONG OF THE BAYONET
50Part Two (pt. 2)

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