# The Return of the Soldier

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- Authors: [Rebecca West](https://www.bookquiver.com/rebecca-west)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-065-6
- Pages: 112
- Published: 1998-06-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an enclosed world invaded by public events also embodies...