The Happy Foreigner
by Enid Bagnold
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About This Book
Fictional account of the author's experiences working as a volunteer driver in France during the First World War. Contrasts the duties and demands of the heroine's external life, with the freedom and excitement of her internal life during a whirl-wind romance with a French officer.
Chapters (54)
- THE HAPPY FOREIGNER
- CONTENTS
- PROLOGUE: THE EVE PART I. THE BLACK HUT AT BAR
- PART II. LORRAINE
- PART III. THE FORESTS OF CHANTILLY
- PART IV. SPRING IN CHARLEVILLE
- PROLOGUE
- THE EVE
- PART I
- CHAPTER I
- THE TRAVELLER
- PART II
- CHAPTER II
- METZ
- CHAPTER III
- JULIEN
- CHAPTER IV
- VERDUN
- CHAPTER V
- VERDUN
- CHAPTER VI
- THE LOVER IN THE LAMP
- CHAPTER VII
- THE THREE "CLIENTS"
- CHAPTER VIII
- GERMANY
- CHAPTER IX
- THE CRINOLINE
- CHAPTER X
- FANNY ROBBED AND RESCUED
- CHAPTER XI
- THE LAST NIGHT IN METZ: THE JOURNEY
- PART III
- THE FORESTS OF CHANTILLY
- CHAPTER XII
- PRECY-SUR-OISE
- CHAPTER XIII
- THE INN
- CHAPTER XIV
- THE RIVER
- CHAPTER XV
- ALLIES
- CHAPTER XVI
- THE ARDENNES
- PART IV
- SPRING IN CHARLEVILLE
- CHAPTER XVII
- THE STUFFED OWL
- CHAPTER XVIII
- PHILIPPE'S HOUSE
- CHAPTER XIX
- PHILIPPE'S MOTHER
- CHAPTER XX
- THE LAST DAY
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