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===Fiction=== {{more citations needed section|date=January 2025}} * 1914 β ''[[Indissoluble Matrimony]]'', a controversial short story which was first published in ''Blast No. 1''. Edited by Yolanda MoratΓ³ for the Spanish publishing house Zut, it was also published in the Spanish edition of ''Blast No. 1'' (Madrid: Juan March Foundation, 2010). This ''novella'' challenges many issues about feminism and women's involvement in politics in pre-war Britain. * 1918 β ''[[The Return of the Soldier]]'', the first World War I novel written by a woman, about a shell-shocked, amnesiac soldier returning from World War I in hopes of being reunited with his first love, a working-class woman, instead of continuing to live with his upper-class wife. * 1922 β ''The Judge'', a novel combining Freudian Oedipal themes with suffragism and an existential take on cosmic absurdity. * 1929 β ''Harriet Hume'', a modernist story about a piano-playing prodigy and her obsessive lover, a corrupt politician. * 1935 β ''The Harsh Voice: Four Short Novels'', contains the short story "The Salt of the Earth," featuring Alice Pemberton, whose obsessive altruism becomes so smothering that her husband plots her murder. This was adapted for ''[[The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]]'' as "The Paragon" starring Joan Fontaine (season 1, episode 20) in 1963.<ref>Opening credit reads, "From a story by Rebecca West."</ref> An additional story from the collection, "There is No Conversation", is the tale of a romance as told in hindsight by both parties, one a caddish Frenchman and the other a coarse American woman. This story was adapted for an hour-long radio drama in 1950 on ''[[NBC University Theatre]]'' and featured a commentary on West's story and writing skills by [[Katherine Anne Porter]]. * 1936 β ''The Thinking Reed'', a novel about the corrupting influence of wealth even on originally decent people. Perhaps a disguised self-critique of her own elegant lifestyle. * 1956 β ''The Fountain Overflows'', a semi-autobiographical novel weaving a cultural, historical, and psychological tapestry of the first decade of the 20th century, reflected through the prism of the gifted, eccentric Aubrey family. * 1966 β ''The Birds Fall Down'', spy thriller based on the deeds of the historical double agent [[Yevno Azef]].<ref>First published in the UK by Macmillan in 1966, and published in the US by Viking Press also in 1966.</ref> * 1984 β ''This Real Night'', sequel to ''The Fountain Overflows'' published posthumously * 1985 β ''Cousin Rosamund'', final, unfinished installment of the "Aubrey Trilogy" published posthumously<ref>From a copy of ''Cousin Rosamund'' with an afterword by Victoria Glendinning; Macmillan, 1995.</ref> * 1986 β ''Sunflower'', published posthumously, about a tense love-relationship between an actress and a politician, reminiscent of West's relationship with H. G. Wells. * 2002 β ''The Sentinel'', edited by Kathryn Laing and published posthumously, West's very first extended piece of fiction, an unfinished novel about the suffragist struggle in Britain, including grim scenes of female incarceration and force-feeding.
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