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Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
A sequel to Lawrence's earlier The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love continues the story of the Brangwen sisters in the coal-mining town of Beldover. Based in part on Lawrence's own stormy marriage to German aristocrat Frieda von Richthofen, the tale is charged with intense feelings and psychological insigh ...Show more
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
Category: Biography | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Famed for her work among the sick and wounded of the Crimean War, Mary Seacole possessed a unique perspective: that of a Victorian-era black woman at a battlefield's front line. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1805, she began her career as a healer by helping her mother nurse British officers at nearby mi ...Show more
World War One British Poets - Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others by Candace Ward (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Ironically, the horrors of World War One produced a splendid flowering of British verse as young poets, many of them combatants, confronted their own morality, the death of dear friends, the loss of innocence, the failure of civilization, and the madness of war itself. This volume contains a rich selec ...Show more
World War One Short Stories by Bob Blaisdell (Editor); Dover Staff
Category: Military | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
These gripping tales from the trenches of France and Belgium offer firsthand testimony to the mayhem that devastated Europe from 1914 to 1918. Written mostly by veterans, they offer moving accounts of life and death amid the constant terror of bombs, poison gas, and machine guns. In addition to the more ...Show more
Zadig and Other Stories by Voltaire
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Best known as the author of the satirical novel Candide, Voltaire also wrote other highly regarded works of philosophical fiction. With the title tale of this original collection of short stories, the author addresses the social and political problems of his own day in an ancient Babylonian setting. Fi ...Show more