All Men Are Enemies | All Men Are Enemies

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Author: Richard Aldington
First Published: 1933
Type of Work: Bildungsroman
Time of Work: 1900-1914, 1919, and 1926-1927
Setting: England, Italy, Austria, and France
Principal Characters: Antony Clarendon, Henry Clarendon, Henry Scrope, Stephen Crang, Robin Fletcher, Katharina (Katha), Margaret, Walter Cartwright, Richard Waterton, Julian, Mama, Babbo
Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
Subjects: Self-discovery, France or French people, Love or romance, Social issues, 1910’s, 1920’s, England or English people, Death or dying, World War I, Austria or Austrians, Italy or Italians, Senses or sensation
Locales: France, England, Italy, Austria

Antony Clarendon grows up in the comfortable, protected, pre-World War I environment of rural Great Britain, believing that Englishmen are generous and caring and love the land with an opulence not found elsewhere. Antony’s early memories of Vine House, the home in which he was born and grew up, a seventeenth century brick and stone dwelling with a coat of arms over the door, are memories of a “harmony so complete that he had breathed it as naturally and unconsciously as pure air.” The people he encounters, from his nanny, Annie, to the local squire, Henry...

All Men Are Enemies | All Men Are Enemies

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