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The Marne, A Tale of War
Edith Wharton
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American writer Edith Wharton is known for her novels of manners set in old New York; yet much of her adult life was spent in France. She lived in Paris throughout World War I and was heavily involved in refugee work. Her novella The Marne dramatizes the events of the war as seen through the eyes of 15-year-old Troy Belknap, an American boy who longs to join up and save his beloved France.
American writer Edith Wharton is known for her novels of manners set in old New York; yet much of her adult life was spent in France. She lived in Paris throughout World War I and was heavily involved in refugee work. Her novella The Marne dramatizes the events of the war as seen through the eyes of 15-year-old Troy Belknap, an American boy who longs to join up and save his beloved France.
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At last the turn of the Belknaps came too; but, as they were preparing to start, news came that the German army was at Lille, and civilian travel to England interrupted.
It was the fateful week, and every name in the bulletins—Amiens, Compigne, Rheims, Meaux, Senlis—evoked in Troy Belknap's tortured imagination visions of ancient beauty and stability. He had done that bit of France alone with M. Gantier the year before, while Mrs. Belkn. . . Read More
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I didn’t expect this little story to keep me as engaged as it did! It was a pleasant surprise. I shouldn’t have doubted Wharton.
That said, I think it should’ve ended after Chapter 11, perhaps with an added paragraph revealing how Troy saw/felt/imagined Paul Gantier lifting him off of the battlefield
1918-as kisregény (novella inkább?) az I. világháborúról. Ezzel le is írtam, hogy miért tartom kifejezetten fontos kisregénynek. Ez nem valamiféle visszaemlékezés sok évvel későbbről, hanem még frissiben megírt alkotás. Bár fikció, de mint ma megtudtam az internetről, Edith Wharton a szociális reali
Edith Wharton had been living in France for many years when WWI began. Like many in Europe, Wharton was frustrated and angry at America’s reluctance to enter the war and The Marne was written in response. The main character, Troy Belknap, is her voice against this hesitation, a call to save what she
Edith Wharton and the Great War
A very timely read on the 100th Anniversary of the Great War. What a sensational piece of fiction with an American protagonist, captures so well the hubris of America entering the war and teaching the old world with American institutions. I could not put this down...Hi