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Fighting France by Edith Wharton, History, Travel, Military, Europe, France, World War I
Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author)
ISBN: 1463801688     ISBN-13: 9781463801687
Publisher: Aegypan
OUR PRICE:   $13.25  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Europe - France
- History | Europe - France
- History | Military - World War I
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.31" H x 6" W x 9" (0.44 lbs) 130 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
- Chronological Period - 1900-1919
 
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On the 30th of July, 1914, motoring north from Poitiers, we had lunched somewhere by the roadside under apple-trees on the edge of a field. Other fields stretched away on our right and left to a border of woodland and a village steeple. All around was noonday quiet, and the sober disciplined landscape which the traveller's memory is apt to evoke as distinctively French. Sometimes, even to accustomed eyes, these ruled-off fields and compact grey villages seem merely flat and tame; at other moments the sensitive imagination sees in every thrifty sod and even furrow the ceaseless vigilant attachment of generations faithful to the soil. The particular bit of landscape before us spoke in all its lines of that attachment. The air seemed full of the long murmur of human effort, the rhythm of oft-repeated tasks, the serenity of the scene smiled away the war rumours which had hung on us since morning. . . .


Contributor Bio(s): Wharton, Edith: - "Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt."