The end of innocence
Subtitle: a novel
By: Allegra Jordan
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781492609933; 9781492603832
Subjects: World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746; World War, 1914-1918; College students; Fiction; Foreign Students; Harvard University; Foreign students
Description: It is the twilight of innocence: America 1914. As Europe goes to war, Helen, a Boston bluestocking, begins her studies at Harvard-Radcliffe. Riley, a carefree British playboy more interested in chasing women than studying, sets his sights on her. He is surprised to find that his adversary in love is not Helen's protective brother, but Riley's own cousin, Wils Brandl, a brooding poet and German noble. As distant conflict begins to penetrate the quiet walls of Harvard, Wils must return to Europe and face a war for which he is not prepared. Set in Boston and Flanders Fields, Harvard 1914 explores love, war, and a new social imagination.