Henri Barbusse eBooks

Under Fire: The Story of a Squad - The most powerful, brutal, and vivid novel to come out of WW-I To the men of the French Sixth Battalion, war is not about bands playing and flags waving. It is about >>

Under Fire was written by Henri Barbusse, this book was one of the first novels to be published about World War I. Although it is fiction, the novel was based on the authors own war experiences as a French >>

"You, my love, will be poor, so as to be more like all other women. In order for us to live together I shall work all day and so be your servant. You will work affectionately for us both in this room - >>

Henri Barbusse's Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (in the original French Le Feu: journal d'une escouade) was one of the first novels about World War I. Published at the end of 1916, it was based on Barbusse's >>

The intriguing story of a young man living in a Paris boardinghouse who spies on his neighbours through a hole in his bedroom wall. Seen through the eyes of a voyeur, the narrative discusses different >>

In introducing M. Barbusse's most important book to a public already familiar with "Under Fire," it seems well to point out the relation of the author's philosophy to his own time, and the kinship of his >>

HELL is the most highly focused study of voyeurism ever written. A young man staying in a Paris boarding house finds a hole in the wall above his bed. Through this he obsessively studies the private moments >>