The Return of the Soldier
โ Scribed by Rebecca West
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2010;2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1101141921
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โฆ Synopsis
Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an enclosed world invaded by public events also embodies in its characters the shifts in England's class structures at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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### It would be a crime to give away even the barest outline of Rebecca West's apparently simple, always agonizing first novel. We shall say only that _The Return of the Soldier_ concerns the title character and three very different women to whom he is linked in very different ways--by blood, by mar
Set during World War I on an isolated country estate just outside London, Rebecca West's haunting novel **The Return of the Soldier** follows Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, as he makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will the
In Rebecca West's *The Return of the Soldier* (1918), Chris Baldry comes home from World War I shell-shocked and suffering from amnesia. He believes that he is twenty years old and in love with an innkeeper's daughter whom he has not actually seen in fifteen years. His elegant wife and spinster cous