The Return of the Soldier
About this book
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.
Subjects
- amnesia
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- classic literature
- country homes
- england, fiction
- english fiction
- fiction
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction, general
- fiction, psychological
- fiction, war & military
- great britain, fiction
- large type books
- literature
- man-woman relationships
- man-woman relationships, fiction
- romance fiction
- soldiers
- veterans
- veterans, fiction
- war neuroses
- world war, 1914-1918
- world war, 1914-1918, fiction