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  • The House by the River

    by A. P. Herbert ...
    The story of "The House by the River" likely revolves around a particular house situated by a river, serving as the central setting for the narrative. A. P. Herbert's writing style typically blends elements of comedy, social commentary, and keen observations of human behavior.In "The House by the River," readers would likely encounter a mix of quirky characters, humorous situations, and perhaps ... Read more

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  • The House By The River

    by A. P. Herbert ...
    In west London on the bank of the Thames is a well-heeled but down to earth street. The residents are all accomplished in their own ways, but the shining star that dominates their attention is Stephen Byrne, the war poet. But Stephen isn't the perfect specimen that they imagine him to be: he spontaneously assaults his new maid, killing her, and setting his life—and that of his friend John Egerton ... Read more

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  • Voices from the Trenches: 40 First World War Novels

    Trench Tales, Home-Front Dramas, Espionage, and Anti-War Testimony from the Great War

    by John Buchan, D. H. Lawrence, H. C. McNeile, Henri Barbusse, Sapper, Ford Madox Ford, Thomas Nelson Page, A. P. Herbert, Zane Grey, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Elizabeth Von Arnim, Herbert W. McBride, Owen Wister, Robert W. Chambers, Frederic Manning, William John Locke, Edith Wharton, Hall Caine, Marie Belloc Lowndes, John Oxenham, Frances Hodgson Burnett, O. Douglas, J. Storer Clouston, Ring Lardner, William Le Queux, Herbert George Jenkins, Louis Tracy, Romain Rolland, Owen Johnson, Earl Derr Biggers, Stephen Hudson, Hesketh Prichard ...
    Voices from the Trenches: 40 First World War Novels surveys the Great War not as a single event but as a literary crucible of combat, espionage, displacement, grief, patriotism, and disillusion. Its wide-ranging selection moves among trench narratives, psychological studies, romances, political fiction, adventure tales, and mysteries, revealing how popular and experimental modes alike registered ... Read more

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  • The Secret Battle

    A tragedy of the First World War

    by A. P. Herbert ...
    In The Secret Battle A. P. Herbert tells the story of an idealistic, young officer called Harry Penrose. First in Gallipoli, then in the trenches of France, he is tested and brought to breaking point as he battles to retain the ideals of military glory, duty and courage amidst the daily grinding miseries of the trenches.It lays bare the real horrors of the First World War without melodrama, or ... Read more

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  • The House by the River

    by A. P. Herbert ...
    In west London on the bank of the Thames lives Stephen Byrne, the war poet-the shining star of his well-heeled street. But Stephen isn't the perfect specimen they imagine him to be: he spontaneously assaults his new maid, killing her, and setting his life-and that of his friend John Egerton-on a dangerously out-of-control path.The House by the River is A. P. Herbert's second novel. These days it ... Read more

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  • The Secret Battle

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by A. P. Herbert ...
    Series series
    Sir Alan Patrick Herbert CH (usually writing as A. P. Herbert or A. P. H.; 24 September 1890 – 11 November 1971) was an eng humorist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist. He was an independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford University for 15 years, five of which he combined with service in the Royal Navy. "The Secret Battle" is a novel by A. P. Herbert, first published in 1919. The ... Read more

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  • The House by the River

    by A. P. Herbert ...
    A chilling psychological novel of guilt, vanity, and self-deception-rediscovered.In a quiet house along the Thames, a failed poet commits an impulsive crime. What follows is not horror, but justification-an unnerving monologue that slowly reveals the collapse of a man's conscience.First published in 1920, The House by the River is a forgotten masterpiece of psychological suspense. A.P. Herbert, ... Read more

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  • 40 WW1 Novels

    A World War I Fiction Anthology of Trench Realism, Espionage, Home-Front Drama, Trauma, and Antiwar Voices

    by Sapper, Ford Madox Ford, Henri Barbusse, Boyd Cable, Thomas Nelson Page, A. P. Herbert, Zane Grey, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Elizabeth Von Arnim, Herbert W. McBride, Owen Wister, Robert W. Chambers, Frederic Manning, William John Locke, Edith Wharton, Hall Caine, Marie Belloc Lowndes, John Oxenham, Frances Hodgson Burnett, O. Douglas, J. Storer Clouston, Ring Lardner, William Le Queux, D. H. Lawrence, H. C. McNeile, John Buchan, Herbert George Jenkins, Louis Tracy, Romain Rolland, Owen Johnson, Earl Derr Biggers, Stephen Hudson, Hesketh Prichard ...
    40 WW1 Novels gathers a wide-ranging body of fiction shaped by the First World War and its far-reaching social, imperial, and psychological consequences. Moving between espionage, trench narrative, romance, adventure, satire, domestic drama, and moral inquiry, the volume reveals how the conflict transformed popular as well as high literary forms. Its striking range encompasses accounts of combat ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Secret Battle (UNABRIDGED)

    by A. P. HERBERT ...
    Narrated by Braylon Ernest ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 54 min

    Like many soldiers at the beginning of their military careers, Harry Penrose has romantic ideas of climbing the ranks and attaining hero status. However, while stationed at Gallipoli, the realities of war begin to take their toll on Penrose, not only physically, but also mentally where the war has become a 'battle of the mind.' This is his story as related by a fellow soldier, as well as the story ... Read more

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  • Virginia Woolf: The Complete Novels

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941), known professionally as Virginia Woolf, was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs ... Read more

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  • The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

    by Edith Wharton ...
    One might not expect a woman of Edith Wharton's literary stature to be a believer of ghost stories, much less be frightened by them, but as she admits in her postscript to this spine-tingling collection, "...till I was twenty-seven or -eight, I could not sleep in the room with a book containing a ghost story." Once her fear was overcome, however, she took to writing tales of the supernatural for ... Read more

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