This volume features 3 novels by HENRY BARBUSSE, a French novelist, member of the French Communist Party, and a lifelong friend of Albert Einstein.
The novels are:
UNDER FIRE (Le Feu), based on his experiences during World War I, is probably Barbusse's best known novel, that established him as a famous writer.
In THE INFERNO (L'enfer), also translated as "HELL", a young man staying in a Paris boarding house finds a hole in the wall above his bed. Alternately voyeur and seer, he obsessively studies the private moments and secret activities of his neighbors: childbirth, first love, marriage, betrayal, illness, death...
In LIGHT, another WWI novel, the manager of a company is thrust into the horror of the trenches and the experience of the World War I opens his eyes to the injustices of his society. He is transformed through the nightmare of the war into an anti-imperialist.