"The Belfry" is a novel by Mary Sinclair, a famous British writer who wrote about two dozen books, short stories, and poetry and actively participated in the suffrage movement. The novel is written in a lively, journalistic style and tells about the events that lead up to the scenes of The Great War (WWI). Some of the scenes from the life of the heroes were written from the author's real-life experiences as a volunteer of the Munro Ambulance Corps, a charitable organization that aided wounded Belgian soldiers on the Western Front in Flanders. The main characters are Belfry, a successful little author, half genius, half bounder, and his wife, a cathedral upbringing girl who loves his talent and despises his flaws. The complicated relations between the characters develop in the background of the evolving war, making them escape from one Belgium village to another to save themselves from the horrors of the battles.

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This definitive volume will profoundly alter our understanding of the literature of the Great War. New critical approaches have, over the last two decades, redefined the term 'war literature' and its cultural legacy. Consisting, in equal measure, of essays by male and female scholars (from several different countries), and devoted to both familiar and lesser-known works, this book presents the many faces of Great War literary study at the millennium.

The forgotten modernist, May Sinclair was close friends with Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford, Robert Frost and prominent figures of the London literary scene. She was the first critic to use the term “stream of consciousness” to describe a literary technique. Quick to assimilate new ideas of the Modernist movement, she wrote the stirring and formally experimental Bildungsroman ‘Mary Olivier’ (1919). A critically-respected and popular novelist, Sinclair was also a poet, philosopher, translator and critic, whose works span from the late 1880’s up until the late 1920’s. This comprehensive eBook presents May Sinclair’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Sinclair’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 19 novels in the US public domain, with individual contents tables * Features many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short stories * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Sinclair’s chilling ghost stories * Includes Sinclair’s rare and complete poetry – available in no other collection * Sinclair’s important essay on ‘Feminism’ – digitised here for the first time * Her landmark study on the Brontë sisters * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, three novels and two story collections cannot appear in this edition. When new texts become available, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Novels Audrey Craven (1897) Mr and Mrs Nevill Tyson (1898) The Divine Fire (1904) The Helpmate (1907) The Immortal Moment (1908) The Creators (1910) The Flaw in the Crystal (1912) The Combined Maze (1913) The Three Sisters (1914) The Belfry (1916) The Tree of Heaven (1917) Mary Olivier (1919) The Romantic (1920) Mr. Waddington of Wyck (1921) Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922) Anne Severn and the Fieldings (1922) A Cure of Souls (1924) Arnold Waterlow (1924) The Rector of Wyck (1925) The Shorter Fiction Two Sides of a Question (1901) The Judgment of Eve (1907) The Return of the Prodigal (1914) Uncanny Stories (1923) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Poetry Collections Nakiketas and Other Poems (1886) Essays in Verse (1892) The Dark Night (1924) The Non-Fiction The Three Brontës (1912) Feminism (1912) A Journal of Impressions in Belgium (1915) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks