[Gutenberg 41779] • The Human Boy and the War
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- Authors
- Phillpotts, Eden
- Publisher
- Emereo Publishing
- Tags
- 1914-1918 -- england -- fiction , england -- social life and customs -- 20th century -- fiction , world war , english , war stories , boys -- fiction
- ISBN
- 9781299357754
- Date
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.18 MB
- Lang
- en
Published in 1916, this is the third collection of thirteen humorous short stories about English school boys in a boarding school in the fictitious village Merivale. This book, of course, has World War I as a backdrop. Each story is told in the voice of a different boy at the school. The author wrote two other books in this series: The Human Boy (1900) and The Human Boy Again (1908). Eden Phillpotts was popular with the reading public and wrote prolifically novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and nonfiction.