Rebecca West

Born

in London, England

December 21, 1892

Died

March 15, 1983

Website

http://www.openroadmedia.com/authors/rebecca-we...

Genre

Fiction, Politics, History

Influences

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Cicely Isabel Fairfield, known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer. A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century. She reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Sunday Telegraph, and the New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman. Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; A Train of Powder (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason, later The New Meaning of Trea ...more

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Rebecca West’s books

Average rating: 3.86 · 13,398 ratings · 1,802 reviews · 88 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, Verlyn Klinkenborg (Introduction), Norman Price (Illustrator) 3.70 avg rating — 5,326 ratings — published 1918 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction) 4.23 avg rating — 1,973 ratings — published 1941 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West, Andrea Barrett (Introduction) 3.82 avg rating — 2,197 ratings — published 1956 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Birds Fall Down 3.65 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 1966 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Real Night 3.97 avg rating — 413 ratings — published 1984 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cousin Rosamund 3.71 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 1986 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harriet Hume 3.43 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1929 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thinking Reed 3.55 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 1936 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Train of Powder 3.74 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 1946 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Saga of the Century: The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night, and Cousin Rosamund 4.04 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Rebecca West

Aubrey Trilogy (4 books)
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Quotes by Rebecca West

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

tags: feminism, qotd

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“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.”
― Rebecca West, Young Rebecca: Writings, 1911-1917

tags: clichés, empowerment, feminism, opinions, women, womens-liberation

966 likes

“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”
― Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows

tags: extraordinary, life, music

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Polls

September 2017 Short Story Poll

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, 36 pages, 1930

48 votes, 16.5%

A Good Man Is Hard To Find: Short Story by Flannery O'Connor, 25 pages, 1955

44 votes, 15.1%

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, 125 pages, 1764

39 votes, 13.4%

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, 110 pages, 1984

34 votes, 11.7%

The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy, 128 pages, 1889

27 votes, 9.3%

The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov, 80 pages, 1899

25 votes, 8.6%

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, 82 pages, 1918

25 votes, 8.6%

The Swineherd by Hans Christian Andersen, 32 pages, 1841

20 votes, 6.9%

My Mortal Enemy by My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather, 112 pages, 1926

17 votes, 5.8%

The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin, 60 pages, 1851

7 votes, 2.4%

The Woman of Andros by Thornton Wilder, 112 pages, 1930

5 votes, 1.7%

291 total votes

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