Mr. Direck, an American visitor, arrives at Matching’s Easy in Essex in the summer of 1914 to find the writer Mr. Britling holding forth on everything. Then war breaks out, and the household of family, guests, a German tutor and Britling’s son Hugh is drawn into it, while Britling struggles to make sense of what the war means.
Wells’s wartime novel of 1916, a moving record of how ordinary English people met the First World War. Download the free EPUB.