Where Wars Go to Die: The Forgotten Literature of World War I

Where Wars Go to Die: The Forgotten Literature of World War I

by W. D. Wetherell (Editor)
Where Wars Go to Die: The Forgotten Literature of World War I

Where Wars Go to Die: The Forgotten Literature of World War I

by W. D. Wetherell (Editor)

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Overview

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 work—books 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781634502467
Publisher: Skyhorse
Publication date: 02/02/2016
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 8.90(h) x 2.00(d)

About the Author

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 four previous books from Skyhorse/Arcade, including Summer of the Bass, On Admiration, Soccer Dad, and his latest novel, The Writing on the Wall. He resides in Lyme Center, New Hampshire.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Argue 29

Chapter 2 Moralize 65

Chapter 3 Witness 99

Chapter 4 Lie 135

Chapter 5 Pity 163

Chapter 6 Protest 197

Chapter 7 Mourn 227

Chapter 8 Entertain 255

Epilogue: Guide 297

Works and Writers Selected, Per Chapter 325

Notes 329

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