LibGuides: Primary Sources: World War I: Literature

Online Sources: Literature - World War I

Edith Wharton at Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg's Collection of the works of Edith Wharton.
First World War Poetry Digital Archive (University of Oxford)
"Freely available to the public as well as the educational community, the First World War Poetry Digital Archive is a significant resource for studying the First World War and the literature it inspired."
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"The heart of the archive consists of collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas. This is supplemented by a comprehensive range of multimedia artefacts from the Imperial War Museum, a separate archive of over 6,500 items contributed by the general public, and a set of specially developed educational resources."
Lost Poets of the Great War
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Harry Rusche is the author of Lost Poets of the Great War, a hypertext document on the poetry of World War I - (Emory University)
Modern History Sourcebook: World War I Poetry
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Poems from WWI
Siegfried Sassoon
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"His poetry—at times violent, always honest—expressed his conviction of the brutality and waste of war in grim, forceful, realistic verse. "

Book Sources: Literature - World War I

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
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The African Queen (print book) by C. S. Forester
Call Number: PR6011.O56 A8
"First published in 1935, C.S. Forester's classic romantic adventure is a tale of opposites attracted. Allnut and Rose, a disreputable Cockney and an English spinster missionary, wend their way down a river in Central Africa in a rickety, asthmatic steam launch, and are gradually joined together in a mission of retaliation against the Germans. Fighting time, heat, malaria and bullets, the two have a dramatic rapprochement before the explosive ending of the book. This tale of unlikely love is thrilling and funny and ultimately satisfying. " Amazon.com
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Call Number: PT2635.E68 I613 1983
ISBN: 0899662927
American War Poetry: An Anthology by Lorrie Goldensohn
Call Number: PS595.W36 A46 2006
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Rupert Brooke
Call Number: PR6003.R4 C6
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: PS3515.E37 F2
A work of fiction based on Hemingway's real life experiences from World War I.
Im Westen nichts Neues by Erich-Maria Remarque; Erich Maria Remarque
Call Number: PT2635.E68 I6 2005
ISBN: 346202731X
In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
Call Number: Online - free - Open Library
Access via Open Library
In our Time: Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: PS3515.E37 I5 1970
A collection of Hemingway's short stories including A Soldier's Home about a soldier returning home from WWI
The Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus
Call Number: PT2621.R27 L4313 2015
ISBN: 9780300207675
Le Feu: Journal d'une escouade by Henri Barbusse
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Men at War by Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: PN6071.W35 H46 1979
ISBN: 0517307790
An anthology of war stories chosen by Hemingway.
Oh, Canada!: A Medley of Stories, Verse, Pictures, and Music by Members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
From the HathiTrust Digital Library
The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: PS3515.E37 S9
"Set in Paris and Spain in the 1920s, the novel deals with a group of aimless expatriates, most of whom suffer psychological and physical wounds as a result of World War I. "
Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos
Call Number: PS3507.O743 T5 1921
Under fire; the Story of a Squad (Le feu) by Henri Barbusse
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Translated by Fitzwater Wray
The Wipers Times; a facsimile reprint of the Trench Magazines
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
the Wipers times, the New Church times, the Kemmel times, the Somme times, the B. E. F. times
Women's Writing on the First World War by Agnès Cardinal et al.
Call Number: PN6071.E8 W66 1999
ISBN: 9780198122814

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