British Literature of World War I, Volume 1

Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available. This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories, novels and plays from 1914–19.

General Introduction, Introduction, Bibliography, Florence Barclay, My Heart’s Right There (1914), ‘In Hoc Vince’ (1914), Flora Annie Steel, ‘Sunrise’ (1914), Berta Ruck, ‘The Shirker’ (1915), ‘The Purple of the Shoulder Strap’ (1915), Arthur Machen, ‘The Soldier’s Rest’ (1915), Richard Bird, ‘A Schoolboy Ranker’ (1915), Evelyn Sharp, ‘Frightfulness’ (1915), ‘The Apple Tree’ (1915), ‘The Patriot’s Day’ (1916), Ford Madox Ford, ‘Fun! – It’s Heaven’ (1915), Frank Richards, ‘Coker’s Conscript’ (1916), Stacy Aumonier, ‘The Match: Today and Yesterday’ (1916), Jessie Pope, ‘Cornstalks’ (1916), ‘The Allotment Bride’ (1917), Gilbert Frankau, ‘A Rag-Time Hero’ (1916), Ian Hay, ‘Full Chorus’ (1917), John Galsworthy, ‘Defeat’ (1917), ‘The Juryman’ (1917), ‘The Bright Side’ (1919), Herbert Read, ‘Killed in Action’ (1919), Richard Aldington, ‘Deserter’ (1930), Frank Harris, ‘The Last Kindness’ (1933), Editorial Notes

Maunder, Andrew; Smith, Angela K; Potter, Jane; Tate, Trudi