«War & Politics Boxed set 200+», by H.G. Wells, Leo Tolstoy, Stephen Crane, Rudyard Kipling, Flavius Josephus, Winston Churchill. This digital edition brings together the text and its chapter structure for continuous reading. Contents include: War and Military Novels ; 1. The War of the Worlds (H.G Wells) ; The Épilogue ; 2. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) ; 3. The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane).

À propos des auteurs

Wells, H.G.

Herbert George Wells; (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback.

Tolstoy, Leo

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9 September [28 August] 1828 – 20. November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.[2] He received multiple nominations for Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906, and nominations for Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902 and 1910, and his miss of the prize is a major Nobel prize controversy. (Wikipedia)

Crane, Stephen

Stephen Crane was an American writer and journalist whose brief life left an outsized mark on modern literature. Born in 1871 in New Jersey, he came of age in a rapidly changing United States and began publishing remarkably early, moving between newspapers, magazines, and fiction with unusual confidence. Though he died at only twenty-eight, his career was astonishingly productive: he helped reshape American realism with its blunt, unsentimental attention to experience, and his war writing, frontier stories, and poems all revealed a daring new artistic voice. His poetry, including the collection often associated with his name, is striking for its compressed language, ironic edge, and searching vision of human frailty. Across his work, Crane returned again and again to themes of chance, fear, loneliness, courage, and the indifferent power of nature and society, making his writing feel startlingly modern. Readers today still find in him a clear-eyed refusal to romanticize suffering, along with a deep empathy for ordinary people struggling to make meaning in an uncertain world. His influence can be felt in later realism, naturalism, and modernist writing, and his legacy endures because he understood how fragile and resilient human beings can be at once. Those who enjoy intense, psychologically acute, and beautifully spare writing will find Stephen Crane especially rewarding.

Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) oli brittiläinen kirjailija, runoilija ja novellisti, jonka elämä kulki siirtomaa-ajan Intian, Englannin ja Yhdysvaltojen välillä ja antoi hänen tuotannolleen poikkeuksellisen laajan näkökulman. Hän syntyi Bombayssa ja vietti varhaiset vuotensa Intiassa, missä kielten, tapojen ja valtakunnan ristiriitojen kirjavuus jätti häneen pysyvän jäljen; myöhemmin hän nousi nopeasti aikansa luetuimpien tekijöiden joukkoon ja sai lopulta Nobelin kirjallisuuspalkinnon. Kipling tunnetaan erityisesti tarinoistaan, joissa seikkailu, kuri, sotilasmaailma, eläinhahmot ja imperiumin varjot kietoutuvat yhteen teräväksi ja usein rytmikkääksi kerronnaksi. Hänen teoksissaan toistuvat lojaalisuus, velvollisuus, vallan ja vastuun kysymykset sekä kulttuurien kohtaaminen, mutta myös yksilön haavoittuvuus suuren historian keskellä. Nykyisin Kipling on merkittävä juuri siksi, että hänen tekstinsä pakottavat lukijan pohtimaan sekä kiehtovaa kertojanlahjaa että siirtomaahistorian ongelmallisia rakenteita; hänen perintönsä on yhtä aikaa kirjallisesti vaikuttava ja kriittisesti tarkasteltava. Kiplingin tuotanto puhuttelee erityisesti lukijoita, jotka arvostavat vauhdikasta tarinankerrontaa, historiallista jännitettä ja teoksia, joissa seikkailun pinnan alla sykkii vakava ajattelu vallasta, identiteetistä ja ihmisyydestä.