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  • The Penguin Book of First World War Stories (Penguin Classics)

    (By Barbara Korte)

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    Author Barbara Korte
    “Book Descriptions: An illuminating anthology of World War I fiction by some of England's best- known writers

    This new collection of short stories about World War I features works by such famous British authors as Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Buchan, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, Radclyffe Hall, Katherine Mansfield, Robert Graves, Muriel Spark, and Julian Barnes. Written during the war and after, these stories illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture, as well as the many ways in which short fiction contributed to the literature of that time period.

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