Expatriate
119 books
War & Military
454
May Sinclair - Journal of Impressions in Belgium
In 1914, at the age of 51, the novelist and poet May Sinclair volunteered to leave the comforts of England to go to the Western Front, joining the Munro Ambulance Corps ministering to wounded Belgian soldiers in...
6 hours 29 minutes
Literary Fiction
479
George Bernard Shaw - Love Among the Artists
Love Among the Artists was published in the United States in 1900 and in England in 1914, but it was written in 1881. In the ambience of chit-chat and frivolity among members of Victorian polite society a youthful...
11 hours 23 minutes
Literary Fiction
450
May Sinclair - Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Harriett Frean is a well-to-do, unmarried woman living a life of meaningless dependency, boredom, and unproductivity as she patiently cares for her aging parents, waiting for a man to marry. When her opportunity...
2 hours 9 minutes
Poetry
441
Conrad Aiken - Nocturne of Remembered Spring, and Other Poems
Written at the height of the Great War, the poems of this volume are suffused with a sense of melancholy and tragedy. Some of the poems (such as «1915: The Trenches») speak directly of war-time scenes and images, but...
2 hours 6 minutes
