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"The Return of the Soldier" is British author Rebecca West's remarkable 1918 novel of the struggle of a World War I veteran and the three women who love him as he returns home and tries make sense of the life that he had before he went to war. Told from the perspective of... Read Full Overview

"A major literary event." -Carl Rollyson The Return of the Soldier tells the story of a shell-shocked soldier who returns home from the First World War believing that he is in love with a working-class woman from his past, rather than married to his aristocratic wife. His family... Read Full Overview

The Return of the Soldier, the debut novel of one of the most lauded writers of the twentieth century, delves into the complex relationships between three women who are bound by friendship, family, and love to one soldier whose fate becomes their shared concern. When returns... Read Full Overview

A soldier returns home transformed by World War I, sending shock waves through the lives of three women, in Rebecca West's groundbreaking debut novel

That day its beauty was an affront to me, because, like most Englishwomen of my time, I was wishing for the return of a soldier. Disregarding the national interest and everything else except the keen prehensile gesture of our hearts toward him, I wanted to snatch my Cousin Christopher... Read Full Overview

"An authentic masterpiece." -- The North American Review

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will the devoted wife he... Read Full Overview

The Return of the Soldier is the debut novel of English novelist Rebecca West, first published in 1918. The novel recounts the return of the shell shocked Captain Chris Baldry from the trenches of the First World War from the perspective of his cousin Jenny... Read Full Overview

The Return of the Soldier recounts the return of the shell shocked Captain Chris Baldry from the trenches of the First World War from the perspective of his cousin Jenny. The novel grapples with the soldier's return from World War I with mental trauma and its effects on the family,... Read Full Overview

"Ah, don't begin to fuss!" wailed Kitty. "If a woman began to worry in these days because her husband hadn't written to her for a fortnight! Besides, if he 'd been anywhere interesting, anywhere where the fighting was really hot, he 'd have found some way of telling me instead... Read Full Overview

The Return of the Soldier is a novel written by Rebecca West, first published in 1918. The story is set during World War I and revolves around the return of a soldier named Chris Baldry from the front lines. Chris has been suffering from amnesia and cannot remember anything about... Read Full Overview