Best of
British-Literature

1917

Dulce et Decorum Est


Wilfred Owen - 1917
    Owen's poem is known for its horrific imagery and condemnation of war. It was drafted at Craiglockhart in the first half of October 1917 and later revised, probably at Scarborough but possibly Ripon, between January and March 1918.

Tales of Land and Sea


Joseph Conrad - 1917
    CONTENTSYouthHeart of DarknessThe Nigger of the NacissusIl CondeGaspar RuizThe BruteTyphoonThe Secret SharerFreya of the Seven IslesThe DuelThe End of the TetherThe Shadow-Line

His Last Bow: Volume 1


Arthur Conan Doyle - 1917
    Wisteria Lodge - Mr John Scott Eccles wakes to find that his host and all the domestic staff have vanished and, downstairs, the police find grim evidence of voodoo rites. The Cardboard Box - The morning mail brings Miss Susan Gushing a gruesome surprise. Who would want to send a gentle spinster two severed human ears! The Red Circle - A local landlady has an eccentric lodger who is causing her grave concern especially after her husband was abducted, obviously mistaken for someone else. The Bruce Partington Plans - Holmes is asked by his brother, Mycroft, to uncover how top secret plans for the Bruce Partington submarine could have been stolen from the Woolwich Arsenal.

Extricating Young Gussie


P.G. Wodehouse - 1917
    The story introduces Jeeves, Bertie, and Aunt Agatha, though Bertie's surname may be Mannering-Phipps rather than Wooster.Annotated with biography about the life and times of P.G. Wodehouse.

The Lady of the Basement Flat


Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey - 1917
    I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland, with my hands full of ridiculous little silver shoes and horseshoes, and a Paris hat on my head, and a trembling treble voice whispering in my ear: