All Roads Lead to Calvary (novel)
Author | Jerome K. Jerome |
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Language | English |
Genre | Drama |
Publication date | 1919 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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All Roads Lead to Calvary is a 1919 novel by the British writer Jerome K. Jerome. It was one of the last works written by Jerome, better known for his Three Men in a Boat, and shows the influence of the First World War on him. It is a Bildungsroman in which a Cambridge University educated woman Joan Allway becomes a journalist and then a wartime ambulance driver. She encounters various different people, gaining new experiences and confronting many of the moral issues of the day.
Film adaptation
[edit]In 1921 the novel was turned into a silent British film All Roads Lead to Calvary directed by Kenelm Foss.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Low p.328
External links
[edit]- All Roads Lead to Calvary public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Bibliography
[edit]- Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.