{"product_id":"the-return-of-the-soldier-penguin-twentieth-century-classics","title":"The Return of the Soldier","description":"\u003cp\u003eRebecca West's 1918 novel sends Chris Baldry home from the Western Front with shell shock and a fifteen-year memory gap. He believes he is still in love with Margaret, a working-class woman from his youth, and has forgotten his wife Kitty entirely. West treats the love triangle as a class collision as much as a psychological wound, and the ending restores order at a cost the book does not pretend to forgive. Written while the war still raged, it carries the impatience of someone who has seen the old social contracts fail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition keeps the novel in circulation with its familiar black-spine format and useful scholarly apparatus. A short, sharp book that deserves to be read alongside the war poetry of its moment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabound","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48479507644628,"sku":"014118065X","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/5410\/7860\/files\/9780141180656.jpg?v=1786813880","url":"https:\/\/checkout.vagaboundbooks.com\/products\/the-return-of-the-soldier-penguin-twentieth-century-classics","provider":"Vagabound","version":"1.0","type":"link"}