The Return of the Soldier

Zusatztext The Return of the Soldier is a profound! resonant book. It tells its moving story with emotional integrity! at the same time meditating upon the nature of love! the punishing but necessary cruelty of reality and our responsibility towards one another Informationen zum Autor Rebecca West (1892-1983) was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield, taking her pen name from an Ibsen play. A feminist and social reformer, she was created a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1959. Her only son, Anthony West, is the son of author H.G. Wells. Klappentext The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Wealdstone. But the soldier is shell-shocked and can only remember the Margaret he loved fifteen years before, when he was a young man and she an inn-keeper's daughter. His cousin he remembers only as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all. The women have a choice - to leave him where he wishes to be, or to 'cure' him. It is Margaret who reveals a love so great that she can make the final sacrifice.This is a masterful novel about a shell-shocked, amnesiac soldier returning from WWI to the three women who love him. Zusammenfassung This is a masterful novel about a shell-shocked, amnesiac soldier returning from WWI to the three women who love him.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rebecca West, West Rebecca
• Con la collaborazione di: Sadie Jones (Introduzione), Jones Sadie (Introduzione), Sadie Jones (Postfazione)
• Editore: Virago Press Ltd
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 02.12.2010
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9781844086986
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-698-6
• Numero di pagine: 160
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.9 x 19.8 x 1.1 cm
• Serie: Virago Modern Classics > 413; VMC > VMC; Virago Modern Classics
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