No man's land
Subtitle: fiction from a world at war: 1914-1918
By: edited by Pete Ayrton
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 551
ISBN-13: 9781605986494
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Literary collections; Fiction
Description: From the trenches to the home front, the most profound fiction inspired by World War I--and a moving memorial to the twentieth century's most cataclysmic event.
Table of contents: title: 'The vision' from Under fire, translated by Robin Buss  -- Henri Barbusse; title: 'Marseille" from Across the black waters  -- Mulk Raj Anand; title: 'Rajputs' from War diary 1914-1918, translated by Martin Chalmers  -- Ernst Junger; title: 'The nightmare' from Kangaroo  -- D.H. Lawrence; title: 'Done all that was expected of it' and 'That necessary faculty for trench warfare' from Memoirs of an infantry offficer  -- Siegrfried Sassoon; title: 'Destiny was not willing' and ' I thank you, sister' from Testament of youth  -- Vera Brittain; title: 'Liquid fire' and 'The beauty of men who are whol' from Not so quiet: stepdaughters of war  -- Helen Zenna Smith; title: 'The apolcalypse of Pat McCullough: the sergeant's tale' from An Anzac muster  -- William Baylebridge; title: 'Dawn's angel' from Passport to hell -- Robin Hyde; title: 'Before the war I was an interesting invalid' from The journal of a disappointed ma  -- W.N.P. Barbellion; title: 'The square', 'The beach', 'Conspiracy' and 'In the operating room' from The forbidden zone  -- Mary Borden; title: 'A real hero', 'You should have done nothing' and 'The Austrian offficer lit a cigarette' from A soldier on the southern front, translated by Gregory Conti  -- Emilio Lussu; title: 'The Battle of the Isonzo' from Journals of war & prison, translated by Cristina Viti  -- Carlo Emilio Gadda; title: 'At Doberdob' from Doberdob, translated by Ana Jelnikar and Stephen Watts  -- Prezihov Voranc; title: 'The romance of war ' and 'Political education unde fire' from Blasting and bombarding  -- Wyndham Lewis; title: 'Cannon-fodder' and 'A timeles confusion ' from Death of a hero  -- Richard Aldington; title: 'Beethoven and Bach' from Despised and rejected  -- AT. Fitzroy; title: 'Crevasse' from These 13 -- William Faulkner; title: 'Cushy avec Mademoiselle' from Her privates we  -- Frederic Manning; title: 'Animals', 'Anchorites of lust', 'How Zafirious died', 'Alimberis conquers his fear of shells' and 'Gas' from Life in the tomb, translated by Peter Bien  -- Stratis Myrivilis; title: 'Sheep' from Mahmadou Fofana, translated by Malcolm Imrie  -- Raymond Escholier; title: 'Blackbird' from Posthumous papers of a living author, translated by Peter Wortsman  -- Robert Musil; title: 'To the Romanian front' and 'We'll see what you do there' from The forest of the hanged, translated by A.V. Wise --; title: 'Svejk goes to war' and 'From Hatvan towards the Galician frontier' from The good soldier Svejk, translated by Cecil Parrott  -- Jaroslav Hasek; title: 'Hut 5B' from The Croatian god Mars, translated by Celia Hawkesworth -- Miroslav Krleza; title: 'My good Galician forests' from Diary about Carnojevic, translated by Celia Hawkesworth  -- Milos Crnjanski; title: 'The democratic principle of discussion ' from A sentimental journey, translated by Richard Sheldon  -- Viktor Shklovsky; title: 'I was afraid' from Fear, translated by Malcolm Imrie  -- Gabriel Chevallier; title: 'Jerphanion writes to his wife' from The prelude to Verdun, translated by Warre B. Well,  -- Jules Romains; title: 'Julia remembers', 'The salt of the earth',  'News from Joseph' and 'Joseph's left hand' from To the Slaughterhouse, translated by Norman Glass  -- Jean Giono; title: 'In ten thousand years, this war will be utterly forgotten' from Journey to the end of the night, translated by Ralph Manheim  -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine; title: 'Papa Marescot's framily' from Johnny got his gun  -- Dalton Trumbo --\t'Manger, aimer, payer' from One of ours / -- Willa Cather; title: 'Who dies if England lives?' from We that were young  -- Irene Rathbone; title: 'Evening at Violette' from Non-combatants and others  -- Rose Macaulay; title: 'Veritable equine items of dentistry' from The grey notebook, translated by Peter Bush -- Josep Pal; title: 'One of the braves men I ever knew' from The secret battel  -- A.P. Herbet; title: 'Infidels and curs'  from Scenes from an Armenian childhood, translated by Mischa Kudian  -- Vahn Totvents; title: 'Why didn't he get rich?', translated by Izzy Finkel  -- Omer Seyfettin; title: "I surrender, camrade' from The German prisoner  -- James Hanley; title: Mutiny!' from The Kaiser's coolies, translated by Martin Chalmers  -- Theodor Plievier; title: "Snow' from The case of Sergeant Grischa, translated by Eric Sutton  -- Arnold Zweig; title: 'Cavalry charge' from Military communique, translated by Martin Chalmers -- Edlef Koppen; title: 'My son is dead!' from The Radetzky March, translated by Michael Hofmann  -- Joseph Roth; title: "The gibbet' from Forsytes, pendyces and others  -- John Galsworthy; title: 'Sweet dreams though the guns are booming', 'The dead man's room' and 'He fell in October' from All quiet on the western fron , translated by Brian Murdoch -- Erich Maria Remarque.