Vera Brittain

Testament of Youth

Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain's elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the armed services, Brittain served in London, in Malta, and on the Western Front. By war's end she had lost virtually everyone she loved. "Testament of Youth" is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the "Times Literary Supplement" as a book that helped "both form and define the mood of its time," it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war.

An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925

The author traces her friendship with the author, Winifred Holtby, from their meeting at Oxford to Holtby's death at the age of thirty-seven

The Story of Winifred Holtby

Testament of Friendship

Voici un récit sans concession sur ce que fut le choc de la Première Guerre mondiale, un roman d'apprentissage où les sentiments amoureux sont magnifiés par l'urgence de vivre, ainsi qu'un manifeste féministe et pacifiste poignant. En nous décrivant l'enthousiasme et les idéaux romantiques de sa jeunesse, Vera Brittain revient sur son combat de femme pour entrer à l'université d'Oxford, sur son premier amour brisé par le destin funeste qu'allaient connaître nombre de jeunes hommes au cours de la Grande Guerre, sur son engagement comme infirmière volontaire à Malte et en France. Elle met au jour les désillusions cruelles d'une société qui peine à se projeter et à se réinventer ; elle nous raconte la culpabilité des aînés face à la tragédie dans laquelle ils ont précipité leurs enfants. Elle défend l'urgence et la nécessité d'une paix durable en œuvrant pour la Société des Nations, sans oublier ses luttes en tant que femme de lettres. Best-seller plusieurs fois adapté à l'écran et encensé en son temps par Virginia Woolf, Mémoires de jeunesse - paru en 1933 et traduit pour la première fois en français - est l'un des grands classiques de la littérature anglaise du XXᵉ siècle. 

Mémoires de jeunesse

Generazione perduta

The English author, pacifist, and feminist offers personal insights into her life, discussing her marriage, family, and development as a writer together with the impact of the Second World War

An Autobiographical Story of the Years 1925-1950

Testament of Experience

The correspondence that formed the backbone of Brittain's Testament of Youth, much of it published for the first time.

The First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends, Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow

Letters from a Lost Generation

And Other War Poems

Verses of a V.A.D.

The lives of youth, the ones that suffered the First World War and the postwar period, has been rarely recounted with such depth, elegance, and accuracy. This book is about the life of the paper mill owner's daughter who was struggling to emancipate herself with those of the young student from Oxford and with the suffering that she finds at the forefront during the war. Her passion for study and literature seems frivolous and she dreams of a better time in which she could be naïve.

Testamento de Juventud

First published in 1965, Envoy Extraordinary is a detailed biographical study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her contribution to India. Drawing on a wealth of interviews, press-cuttings, speeches, letters, and more, the book delves into Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit’s political and diplomatic career and explores her personal values and ideals. It adopts an objective and truthful approach that does not steer away from the more difficult or disconcerting aspects of Pandit’s private and public life. In doing so, it provides a thorough study of her career and a detailed insight into India’s political history.

A Study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and Her Contribution to Modern India

Envoy Extraordinary

Excerpt from In the Steps of John Bunyan: An Excursion Into Puritan England It would be as logical to transform Joan Of Arc into a hospital almoner or police-court probation Officer. Puritan preacher or Catholic saint, the prophetic Child Of nature speaks a different language from that Of the earnest educator and the trained social worker. A few critics have gone to the other extreme, for the great will always have their detractors among the small. Inspired by a com prehensible reaction against the moralists, they have endeavoured to present John Bunyan as a species Of village idiot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

An Excursion Into Puritan England (Classic Reprint)

In the Steps of John Bunyan

Mark Bostridge

'Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heart-rendering descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters' Vera Britain to her fiance, Roland Leighton, 17 April 1915Letters from a Lost Generation is a memorable selection of letters, written during the First World War, between Vera Britain and four young men - her fiance Roland Leighton, her younger brother Edward and their two close friends Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow - all of whom were killed in this war.

This classic memoir of the First World War is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. Includes an afterword by Kate Mosse OBE. In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, is Brittain's account of how she survived those agonising years; how she lost the man she loved; how she nursed the wounded and how she emerged into an altered world. A passionate record of a lost generation, it made Vera Brittain one of the best-loved writers of her time, and has lost none of its power to shock, move and enthral readers since its first publication in 1933.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Verses of a V.A.D" by Vera Brittain. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Verses of a V.A.D

Young Janet Harding is still grieving when she accepts a proposal from Reverend Rutherston, the kindly vicar who befriended her during her mother's last illness. Her ambitions to further the suffragette cause are hampered, though, by her early pregnancy with a son, Denis, and life in the spa town of Sterndale is increasingly stifling... Stephen Allendeyne, heir to Dene Hall, prides himself on his marriage to Jessie Penryder, an impoverished governess with little respect for his smug family but plenty of social ambition. At odds in all else, the couple are united in their scorn for daughter Ruth's preference for work, ideas and freedom over marriage... In the aftermath of WWI, Ruth and Denis meet each other through work in Eastern Europe. The scars of their pasts and of the war itself are diminished in a determination to forge a new kind of marriage.

A Novel of Transition

Honourable Estate

Description: Vera Brittain, writer, lecturer, pacifist, and feminist, was born on 29 December 1893 at Newcastle-under-Lyme. She went up to Somerville College, Oxford in 1914 but left to serve as a VAD in World War I. She returned to Oxford after the war where she became friends with Winifred Holtby, a budding novelist. She married George Catlin in 1925 and became the mother of two children. Her most well-known book is Testament of Youth (1933) about her experiences in World War I. During World War II she was a leading member of the Peace Pledge Union. She died in London on 29 March 1970.

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