Fear

Gabriel Chevallier

Original title: La peur

first published 1930 Le dilettante, 2008 349 pages

New York Review Books classics

"Fear is a classic of war literature, a book to place on the shelf with Storm of Steel, A Farewell to Arms, and Going After Cacciato. Jean Dartemont, the hero of Gabriel Chevallier's autobiographical novel, enters what was not yet known as World War I in 1915, when it was just beginning to be clear that a war that all the combatants were initially confident would move swiftly to a conclusion was instead frozen murder...

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Malcolm Imrie 4 printings we hold · 2011–2014 · TBS/GBS/Transworld

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Editions we hold

Fear edition · 2014 · 305 pages · 9781590177167
Fear edition · 2014 · New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The · 9781306910606
Fear edition · 2012 · Profile Books Limited · 320 pages · 9781846687273
La paura edition · 2011 · Adelphi · 327 pages · 9788845925672
Fear edition · 2011 · TBS/GBS/Transworld · 320 pages · 9781847656438
Fear edition · 2011 · Serpent's Tail Limited · 320 pages · 9781846687266
La peur edition · 2010 · Lgf · 408 pages · 9782253127819
La por paperback · 2009 · Quaderns Crema · 352 pages · 9788477274643
La peur edition · 2008 · Le dilettante · 349 pages · 9782842631642

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