Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West - Dover Thrift Editions

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West is a novel set in England in the aftermath of the First World War. This Dover Thrift Editions reprint is issued in paperback format.

Key details

• Author: Rebecca West
• Series: Dover Thrift Editions
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 80
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 30 April 2020

Synopsis

Returning to his stately home after the chaos of the First World War, a shell-shocked officer discovers that much of his memory has been left behind in the trenches. Three women closest to him await his arrival: his thoughtful cousin, who narrates the story, his wife whom he cannot recognise, and a woman linked to a summer romance from 15 years earlier.

West’s novel avoids the battlefield, instead tracing the war’s far-reaching impact on a sheltered society and the spirit of an England facing unwelcome change. It offers a penetrating view of shifting class structures and a sensitive portrait of lives pulled between nostalgia for an irretrievable past and the demands of a conflicted present.

Edition note

Reprint of the Century Co., New York, 1918 edition.

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