Paul Bourget
Translated by Frederic Lees
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Perhaps the most important work of imagination yet written under the influence of the war. A French military hospital is the scene of the story, and its chief characters are a famous Paris surgeon and a young wounded officer, whose fervent Catholic piety is in sharp contrast with the doctor’s philosophic materialism. Death threatens both, and their opposing theories with regard to it are displayed in their relation to a drama of the most intense human passion.