Where Wars Go to Die (eBook)

The Forgotten Literature of World War I

W. D. Wetherell (Herausgeber)

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2016
344 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-0075-8 (ISBN)

Infos

As the world commemorates the hundredth anniversary of World War I, the literary canon of the war has consolidated around the memoirs written in the years after the Armistice by soldier-writers who served in the trenches. Another kind of Great War literature has been almost entirely ignored: the books written and published during the war by the greatest English, American, French, and German writers at workbooks that show us how the best, most influential writers responded to an overpowering human and cultural catastrophe.Where Wars Go to Die: The Forgotten Literature of World War I explores this little-known cache of contemporary writings by the greatest novelists, poets, playwrights, and essayists of the war years, examining their interpretations and responses, weaving excerpts and quotations from their books into a narrative that focuses on the various ways civilian writers responded to an overwhelming historical reality.The authors whose war writings are presented include George Bernard Shaw, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Maurice Maeterlinck, Henri Bergson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Romain Rolland, Thomas Mann, Thomas Hardy, May Sinclair, W. B. Yeats, Ring Lardner, Reinhold Niebuhr, and dozens more of equal stature.Intended for the general reader as much as the specialist, Where Wars Go to Die breaks important new ground in the history and literature of World War I.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

W. D. Wetherell is a novelist, story writer, and essayist who has published more than twenty books. His World War I novel, A Century of November, was published to wide acclaim, praised as "a small classic of language and emotion" (San Francisco Chronicle). Wetherell has published three previous books from Skyhorse/Arcade, including On Admiration, Soccer Dad, and his latest novel, The Writing on the Wall. He resides in Lyme Center, New Hampshire

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.2.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Schlagworte: 1914 • 1914–18 • America • armistice • Bananas • black-and-white • books on armistices • books on bananas • books on cathedrals • books on divisions • books on doughboys • books on eleventh • books on encyclopedias • books on flags • books on gallipoli • books on kaisers • books on lardners • books on legs • books on monuments • books on niebuhrs • books on palisades books on poppies • books on poilus • books on propagandas • books on rainbows • books on remembrances • books on sommes • books on squares • books on trenches • books on war-times • books on whatleys • books on yeats • Cathedral • commemorated • Division • Doughboy • eleventh • Encyclopedia • flags • furled • Gallipoli • hath • Hitler • hundred-year-old • Kaiser • lardner • leafing • legs • Monument • Niebuhr • Palisade • pasted • plinth • Poilu • poppies • Propaganda • Rainbow • Remembrance • respectfully • smelled • Somme • square • tremble • trembling • Trenches • war-time • whatley • Yeats
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-0075-7 / 1510700757
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-0075-8 / 9781510700758