World War One Short Stories - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 048648503X ISBN 13: 9780486485034

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2013

Riassunto

These gripping tales from the trenches of France and Belgium offer firsthand testimony to the mayhem that devastated Europe from 1914 to 1918. Written mostly by veterans, they offer moving accounts of life and death amid the constant terror of bombs, poison gas, and machine guns. In addition to the more familiar perspectives of American and British soldiers, the tales encompass German, French, and Russian points of view. Featured stories include "Introduction to the Trenches," a narrative of a soldier's first night in No Man's Land by Imagist poet Richard Aldington; Mary Borden's "Blind," based on her service as a nurse in a hospital on the Western Front; and "A Raid Night," in which H. M. Tomlinson recounts a zeppelin attack on London. Additional contributors include Rudyard Kipling, Ford Madox Ford, John Galsworthy, Somerset Maugham, Katherine Mansfield, and others. Editor Bob Blaisdell introduces the anthology and provides notes on each author.

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L'autore

Bob Blaisdell is professor of English at the City University of New York's Kingsborough Community College and the editor of twenty-two Dover literature and poetry collections.

Contenuti

Red Tape by May Sinclair Bombardment by Henri Britling The French Poodle by Wyndham Lewis The Port Lookout by "Bartimeus" A Raid Night by H. M. Tomlinson A Trade Report Only by C. E. Montague The Traitor by Somerset Maugham The Fifth Card by Mikhail Andreevich Osorgin Told by the Schoolmaster by John Galsworthy England by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett (Lord Dunsany) Introduction to the Trenches by Richard Aldington The Indomitable Tweedy by A. P. Herbert Pink Flannel by Ford Madox Ford Blind by Mary Borden Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling The Blind Ones by Isaak Babel Misapplied Energy by William T. Scanlon The Fly by Katherine Mansfield

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 048648503X
• ISBN 13: 9780486485034
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 153
• Redattore: Blaisdell Bob