Warwick Deeping - Ultimate Collection: 120+ Novels & Short Stories (Annotated)

di Jocelyn Cinderby (Autore)

Warwick Deeping (Autore)

e-artnow, 2021

This expansive omnibus gathers more than 120 novels and short stories by Warwick Deeping, revealing the remarkable range of a writer once central to English popular fiction. Its contents move among historical romance, domestic tragedy, social comedy, adventure, and postwar moral drama, often written in a lucid, emotionally direct style. Read together, these works illuminate the transition from late Victorian narrative habits to the anxieties of Edwardian and interwar Britain. George Warwick Deeping (1877–1950) was trained at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Middlesex Hospital before serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War. His medical background, wartime experience, and acute observation of class, family duty, illness, grief, and resilience deeply shaped his fiction. The celebrated Sorrell and Son exemplifies his enduring concern with sacrifice, dignity, and the reconstruction of life after catastrophe. This collection is recommended to readers interested in the breadth of early twentieth-century British storytelling beyond the modernist canon. It offers historians, literary scholars, and general readers alike a generous archive of popular taste, emotional seriousness, and narrative craft, preserving an author whose best work remains both accessible and culturally revealing. This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience. - A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions. - A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation. - A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists. - A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths. - Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts. - Lastly, our hand-picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.

• Autore: Jocelyn Cinderby, Warwick Deeping
• Curatore: e-artnow
• Anno edizione: 2021
• Editore: e-artnow
• Formato: EPUB2 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 4064066387426