Opening in August 1914, as the onset of the First World War is announced to a sunlit Paris, Edith Wharton’s chronicle of her experience of the front lines powerfully evokes a country and a way of life under threat. As nuanced in her observations of human behaviour as she is in her vivid depictions of French landscape and architecture, Wharton fully exploits her unique position as consort to Walter Barry, President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris, which allows her unparalleled access to life in the trenches. Sensitive without sentimentality, Fighting France is nothing less than an inspirational testament to the strength of the human spirit at a time of the greatest adversity.
About the author
Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland’s leading contemporary
writers. His novel The Master(2004) was shortlisted for
the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and in 2006 won
the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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