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The Return of the Soldier

โœ Scribed by Rebecca West


Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2010;2014
Tongue
English
Weight
77 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1101141921

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โœฆ 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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