The Willing Horse
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📒 Excerpt from The Willing Horse: A Novel
One is informed that novels touching upon the war are no longer read. This, if true, reduces the novelist to the following alternatives:
(1) Writing a novel of some period of the world's history antecedent to the year nineteen-fourteen. This is undoubtedly a wide field - the Christian era alone covers twenty centuries - but it has been cultivated by several writers already.
(2) Writing a post-war novel in which it is assumed that the war never happened. This would make it rather difficult to know what to do with the graves of our dead.
(3) Writing a post-war novel about people who took no part in the war. This would restrict one's choice of hero, heroine, and characters generally to Certified Lunatics, Convicts in residence, and Conscientious Objectors.
I have therefore decided to take a chance. The tale which follows is based:
(a) Upon a frank admission that there has been a war.
(b) Upon a humble belief that the people chiefly worth writing about in these days are those who gave body, soul - everything - to win that war.
That explains my choice of title.
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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.
One is informed that novels touching upon the war are no longer read. This, if true, reduces the novelist to the following alternatives:
(1) Writing a novel of some period of the world's history antecedent to the year nineteen-fourteen. This is undoubtedly a wide field - the Christian era alone covers twenty centuries - but it has been cultivated by several writers already.
(2) Writing a post-war novel in which it is assumed that the war never happened. This would make it rather difficult to know what to do with the graves of our dead.
(3) Writing a post-war novel about people who took no part in the war. This would restrict one's choice of hero, heroine, and characters generally to Certified Lunatics, Convicts in residence, and Conscientious Objectors.
I have therefore decided to take a chance. The tale which follows is based:
(a) Upon a frank admission that there has been a war.
(b) Upon a humble belief that the people chiefly worth writing about in these days are those who gave body, soul - everything - to win that war.
That explains my choice of title.
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.
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