Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd by Judith Paltin (review)

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1 Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier (New York: Century Company, 1918), and Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1929). 2 William Wyler, dir., The Best Years of Our Lives (Hollywood: Goldwyn Pictures, 1946). 3 David Malouf, Fly Away Peter (New York: Vintage International, 1982). 4 John Ford, dir., The Long Voyage Home (Hollywood: Walter Wanger, 1940); Njabulo S. Ndebele, The Cry of Winnie Mandela (Johannesburg: Picador Africa, 2013); and Tamar Yellin, “Return to Zion,” Kafka in Brontëland and Other Stories (New Milford, Conn.: Toby Press, 2006). 5 Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: A Memoir (London: Victor Gollancz, 1951), and Doris Lessing, Going Home (New York: Harper Perennial, 1996). 6 John Van Druten, The Widening Circle (New York: Scribner Publishers, 1957). 7 See Georg Lukács, The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature, trans. Anna Bostock (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971), p. 41.