THE PENGUIN BOOK OF FIRST WORLD WAR STORIES
BARBARA KORTE is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Recent publications include work on the British short story, English travel writing, Black and Asian British culture and the cultural reception of the First World War in Britain.
ANN-MARIE EINHAUS took her MA degree in English literature and History at the University of Freiburg and is currently working on a PhD project investigating the canonization of First World War short stories in Britain.
Edited and Introduced by BARBARA KORTE
Assistant editor ANN-MARIE EINHAUS
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This collection first published in Penguin Classics 2007
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‘Sapper’ (Herman Cyril McNeile), ‘Private Meyrick – Company Idiot’
C. E. Montague, ‘A Trade Report Only’
Katherine Mansfield, ‘An Indiscreet Journey’
Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘His Last Bow’
W. Somerset Maugham, ‘Giulia Lazzari’
John Buchan, ‘The Loathly Opposite’
Rudyard Kipling, ‘Mary Postgate’
John Galsworthy, ‘Told by the Schoolmaster’
D. H. Lawrence, ‘Tickets, Please’
Radclyffe Hall, ‘Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself’
Harold Brighouse, ‘Once a Hero’
Katherine Mansfield, ‘The Fly’
Winifred Holtby, ‘The Casualty List’
Robert Graves, ‘Christmas Truce’