- Fiction, History, World War, 1914-1918
"Surrounded by the jubilation of Armistice Day, Valentine Wannop receives a telephone call which brings alarming news of her dear friend Christopher Tietjens. For whilst she strains to hear against the racket of celebratory firecrackers, Christopher's mind still exhoes with the bombardments and horrors he endured in the hell of the Front.
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Grave, earnest, prestige and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Ford Madox Ford
- First published
- 1928
- Pages
- 285
- Publisher
- Creative Media Partners, LLC, Penguin Books, Standard Ebooks
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781504080798
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