The Penguin Book of First World War Prose

by Jon Glover (Editor), Jon Silkin (Editor)

A companion to the Penguin book of World War 1 poetry, this anthology reflects how society itself was changed by war. It is divided thematically into the case for war, disillusion versus idealism, action versus stoicism and includes selections from the novels of war writers such as Robert Graves, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Erichmaria Remarque, Richard Aldington and and in a section entitled close quarters, letters from, among others, Wilfred Owen.

Genres: World War I

640 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[A]

Very good anthology. I have my late father's 1992 copy with his inscription notes: "Where is Apollinaire? Where is Virginia Woolf?"

[Susan Liston]

I found the receipt for this inside...I bought it in 1992. 1992! Oh well, I have read some of it already in that time. But this is the first time I've gone through it page by page. It isn't happy reading, a lot of the excerpts seem to have been chosen by their gore content. But it is a good source for future reading .