The return of the soldier

No cover — Rebecca West: The return of the soldier (2004, Modern Library)

82 pages

English language

Published Sept. 10, 2004 by Modern Library.

ISBN:: 978-0-8129-7122-4

(4 reviews)

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.

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3 stars

Rebecca West's story is important historically to understand the dated attitudes towards trauma victims, but that also means the tale has not stood the test of time like some of its contemporary works.

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Subjects

World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Country homes -- Fiction
War neuroses -- Fiction
Soldiers -- Fiction
Amnesia -- Fiction
England -- Fiction