Return of the Soldier

Literature & Fiction

Rebecca West

Literary

Fontana Paperbacks

The publication of Rebecca West's Survivors in Mexico marks an important literary event: the rescue from oblivion of a daring and important work by an major twentieth-century writer. This book is West's exploration of Mexican history, religion, and culture - a work the author clearly conceived as a companion and sequel to her masterpiece about the Balkans, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941). Although West never brought Survivors to completion, she left behind a series of extensive drafts and revisions that Bernard Schweizer has meticulously assembled and edited. The result is a welcome addition to the Rebecca West canon - a compelling travel memoir/history comparable to her best work, and one certain to gain readers and critical acclaim.

Survivors in Mexico

History

Bernard Schweizer

Americas

Yale University Press

Thinking Reed

Classics

Macmillan

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia

Europe

PAPERMAC (A division of Macmillan)

The Fountain Overflows

Avon/Books

Family Memories: An Autobiographical Journey

Written during the last two decades of West's life, this memoir traces the lives of the novelist's ancestors, recounting the family history that became the root and inspiration for her accomplishments

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Lime Tree

1900 was a time of imperialist dreams, of unshaken confidence in the old social order and of cultural expansion. Through illustrations and observations, Rebecca West provides a full portrait of the year 1900, capturing the moods and events that gave the year its character.

1900

Crescent Books

In Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier (1918), Chris Baldry comes home from World War I shell shocked and suffering from amnesia. He believes that he is twenty years old and in love with an innkeeper's daughter whom he has not actually seen in fifteen years. His elegant wife and spinster cousin must suffer the chagrin of being forgotten, as well as face the challenge of how to cure his mental illness.

Classics Publishing

The Judge (Virago Modern Classics)

Penguin books.India

Like most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Powder approaches great literature. Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and forgiveness. The centerpiece of the book is "Greenhouse with Cyclamens," a three-part essay on the Nuremberg trials written with precision, clarity, and daring insight. She also reports on two particularly brutal murder trials ― one for a lynching in North Carolina, the other for a "torso murder" in England ― and the espionage trial of a British telegrapher. Throughout, the question of guilt inspires Ms. West to feats of psychological detection wherein unerring craftsmanship and a powerful narrative sense combine to a high purpose ― the pursuit of truth. "An astonishing book.... As compelling as Court TV but without the frisson of voyeurism (and with the compensatory satisfactions of West's breathtakingly lucid prose style), these elegant narratives remind us of the preciousness and fragility of our right to trial by jury."―Francine Prose. "It is her unique magic to combine impressionism and precision, as if Monet and Ingres could somehow be fused. Time and again a passage begins as a sort of iridescent cloud, and culminates in a diamond point."―Telford Taylor, Saturday Review. "Rebecca West...has raised journalism to a high art, breathing into it a depth, a poetry, a subtlety, and an understanding and compassion for human beings and their endless follies and tragedies that give it a legitimate place in contemporary literature."―William L. Shirer.

A Train of Powder

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Virago Press Ltd.

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