Guides: War Literature: English 1302: World War I, 1914-1918

Course Materials

A Farewell to Arms (Print) by Ernest Hemingway; Patrick Hemingway
Two copies in circulation at Kingwood.
Multiple copies in the system to request.
Women, Men, and the Great War: An Anthology of Stories (print)
Required:
"All the Dead Pilots" by William Faulkner, pp. 29-44

Print copy available through HCPL.
The Book of War: 25 Centuries of Great War Writing (eBook)
Required:
"Wounded (1)" by Ernest Hemingway, pp. 303-307

Print copy also available through HCPL.
World War I in American Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories (print)
Required:
"May Day" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, pp. 125-167

Kingwood copy circulating.
Ernest Hemingway: the Sun Also Rises and Other Writings, 1918-1926 (Print)
Required:
"Lots of War Medals For Sale But Nobody Will Buy Them" by Ernest Hemingway, pp. 115-118
"Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway, pp. 207-214

Kingwood copy circulating.
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (eBook)
Required:
"Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway

Print copy also available at Kingwood.

Message on Neutrality by Woodrow Wilson August 1914
From the Miller Center at the University of Virginia
Woodrow Wilson Addresses Congress, April 19, 1916
From the Miller Center at the University of Virginia
Message Regarding World War I by Woodrow Wilson April 17, 1917
From the Miller Center at the University of Virginia
From the battlefields of France by John J. Pershing
Audio recording of a speech by General John J. Pershing. From the Library of Congress.

Women, Men, and the Great War: An Anthology of Stories (print)
Optional:
"In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway, pp. 120-124

Print copy available through HCPL.
No Man's Land (eBook)
Kingwood print copy circulating.

Conspiracy by Mary Borden
From bookanista.com
Houston, An N.A.A.C.P. Investigation by Martha Gruening
From Prairie View A&M University. The full article is available halfway down page, at "Read Gruening’s story for The Crisis here"
Address of President Woodrow Wilson on Equal Suffrage, September 30, 1918
From the United States Senate. Click on the PDF link at the top of this page.