William—An Englishman

The first book published by Persephone Books with a handwritten postcard from Nicola Beauman, the founder and author

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Printing Details

First thus. Paperback in wrapper. 19.5 × 13.5cm, 226pp.

This copy has a handwritten postcard from Nicola Beauman. She was the founder of Persephone Books and this was the first book they published.

Considered to be 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 (because they cannot at first believe what is happening to them). 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.

Condition

Very good condition, with a few small spots of foxing to the page edges.

ISBN

0953478009