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    Coming Home: 1916
    Coming Home: 1916
    Coming Home: 1916
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    Coming Home: 1916

    By Edith Wharton

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    "Coming Home: 1916" by Edith Wharton is set in France during the First World War. The story is told by an American aid worker. While doing his duty, he meets a wounded French soldier, Jean Réchamp, at a Flemish camp hospital. Jean is alarmed by what he has heard of the destruction wrought by the Germans in the Vosges, where he lived; he is worried about his family and his fiancée. Another chance meeting finds once again the ambulance driver, encountering the young man. The two manage to get permission to visit his home village on their way to pick up more of the wounded and see if Jean's worries were right.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 3, 2019
    ISBN4057664583321
    Coming Home: 1916
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    Edith Wharton

    Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist—the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921—as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Her other works include Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. Born into one of New York’s elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper-class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.

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