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The Cross of Carl Walter Owen AN ALLEGORY The story of one who went down into the depths and was buried; who, doubting much, yet at the last lifted up his eyes unto the hills and rose again and was transfigured

Year: 1931
Tongue: English
Weight: 45 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

An anti-war religious allegory, this is the story of Carl's first and last day of combat as a soldier in World War I. He can be identified from hints as a German, but his nationality is not the point here. Carl is presented as an Everyman and a Christ figure ('carl,' from the Old Norse for 'man,' meant 'peasant' or 'serf' in earlier periods of English).