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William: An Englishman

William: An Englishman

Cicely Hamilton
3.8/5 ( ratings)
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William was 'written in a rage in 1918; this extraordinary novel... is a passionate assertion of the futility of war' . Its author had been an actress and suffragette; after 1914 she worked at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont and organised Concerts at the Front. William - an Englishman was written in a tent within sound of guns and shells; this 'stunning... terrifically good' novel is in one sense a very personal book, animated by fury and cynicism, and in another a detached one; yet is always 'profoundly moving' .

In the view of Persephone Books, William is one of the greatest novels about war ever written: not the war of the fighting soldier or the woman waiting at home, but the war encountered by Mr and Mrs Everyman, wrenched away from their comfortable preoccupations - Socialism, Suffragettism, so gently mocked by Cicely Hamilton - and forced to be part of an almost dream-like horror . The scene when William and Griselda emerge after three idyllic weeks in a honeymoon cottage in the remote hills of the Belgian Ardennes, and encounter German brutality in a small village, is unforgettable. The book, which won the Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse in 1919, is a masterpiece, written with an immediacy and a grim realism reminiscent of an old-fashioned, flickering newsreel.
Language
English
Pages
226
Format
Paperback
Release
January 01, 1919
ISBN 13
9780953478002

William: An Englishman

Cicely Hamilton
3.8/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
William was 'written in a rage in 1918; this extraordinary novel... is a passionate assertion of the futility of war' . Its author had been an actress and suffragette; after 1914 she worked at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont and organised Concerts at the Front. William - an Englishman was written in a tent within sound of guns and shells; this 'stunning... terrifically good' novel is in one sense a very personal book, animated by fury and cynicism, and in another a detached one; yet is always 'profoundly moving' .

In the view of Persephone Books, William is one of the greatest novels about war ever written: not the war of the fighting soldier or the woman waiting at home, but the war encountered by Mr and Mrs Everyman, wrenched away from their comfortable preoccupations - Socialism, Suffragettism, so gently mocked by Cicely Hamilton - and forced to be part of an almost dream-like horror . The scene when William and Griselda emerge after three idyllic weeks in a honeymoon cottage in the remote hills of the Belgian Ardennes, and encounter German brutality in a small village, is unforgettable. The book, which won the Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse in 1919, is a masterpiece, written with an immediacy and a grim realism reminiscent of an old-fashioned, flickering newsreel.
Language
English
Pages
226
Format
Paperback
Release
January 01, 1919
ISBN 13
9780953478002

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