Home Fires in France
Civilian Life, Wartime Resilience, and Women's Relief on the French Home Front in World War IBy Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Length7h 16m
About this audiobook
Published in 1918, Home Fires in France is Dorothy Canfield Fisher's vivid record of civilian life and humanitarian service amid the First World War. Drawing on her work with French war-relief efforts, Fisher presents a series of sketches, observations, and personal impressions shaped by travel through a France transformed by mobilization, displacement, and danger. Its prose combines journalistic immediacy with the humane attentiveness of the literary essay: domestic scenes, village customs, women's labor, and encounters with soldiers and refugees become evidence of cultural endurance. Situated within the era's flourishing tradition of wartime testimony, the book resists both abstract patriotism and melodramatic spectacle, emphasizing instead the practical ethics of care and the persistence of ordinary life. Fisher was an American novelist, educator, translator, and progressive reformer whose intellectual interests centered on child welfare, education, social responsibility, and international understanding. Her familiarity with European culture—reinforced by study and residence abroad—and her direct participation in wartime relief gave her an unusually informed perspective on France. She writes not as a distant correspondent but as an engaged observer attentive to the unequal burdens borne by civilians, especially women and children. Home Fires in France will reward readers interested in World War I history, women's writing, humanitarianism, and transatlantic cultural exchange. Its accessible yet reflective style makes it valuable both as a primary document of wartime consciousness and as a moving study of resilience, community, and moral action under pressure.
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GenreHistory
Length7 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 1, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Coast of Bohemia, Dr. Breen's Practice & Annie Kilburn (Historical Novels) (Annotated)
2HOME FIRES IN FRANCE
3NOTES FROM A FRENCH VILLAGE IN THE WAR ZONE
4"What was in the ground, alive, they could not kill."
5I
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6II
7III
8IV
9V
10A FAIR EXCHANGE
11THE REFUGEE
12A LITTLE KANSAS LEAVEN
13EYES FOR THE BLIND
14THE FIRST TIME AFTER
15HATS
16A HONEYMOON ... VIVE L'AMERIQUE!
17LA PHARMACIENNE
18THE BENT TWIG
19THE SQUIRREL-CAGE
20HILLSBORO PEOPLE
21With occasional Vermont verse by Sarah N. Cleghorn.
22THE REAL MOTIVE
23UNDERSTOOD BETSY
24Illustrated by Ada C. Williamson.
25PROFESSOR LATIMER'S PROGRESS
26LITTLE JOURNEYS TOWARDS PARIS (1914-1918)
27BELSHAZZAR COURT
28Or Village Life in New York City
29NOVELS
30THE WISHING-RING MAN
31YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG ONCE
32POETRY
33FACTORIES, AND OTHER POEMS
34Second printing.
35THE OLD ROAD TO PARADISE
36In Press.
37JEAN-CHRISTOPHE
38Translated from the French by Gilbert Cannan. In three volumes.
39JEAN-CHRISTOPHE
40JEAN-CHRISTOPHE IN PARIS
41JEAN-CHRISTOPHE: JOURNEY'S END
42Some Noteworthy Comments
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