Fire of Life

Henry W. Nevinson

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571300419
• Year: 2013

Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856-1941) was a scholar and socialist who found his métier on the cusp of the twentieth century, as a war correspondent who would go on to chronicle the major wars and civil conflicts of his time, from South Africa and Russia to India and the Balkans. Reporting from the Western Front in 1918 he was wounded at the Dardanelles. Nevinson's work was marked by a strong sense of conscience and underscored by activism: directing relief work in Macedonia and Albania, campaigning against the dreadful mistreatment of bonded labourers in Portuguese Angola, and supporting female suffrage in Britain. (He would marry the suffragette Evelyn Sharp.)

Nevinson wrote three volumes of autobiography: Changes and Chances (1923), More Changes, More Chances (1925), and Last Changes, Last Chances (1928). Fire of Life, first published in 1935, is an expert abridgement of this trilogy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• AUTHOR’S NOTE
• PREFACE
• CONTENTS
• CHAPTER I: THE ENGLISH MIDLANDS
• CHAPTER II: CHRIST CHURCH MEADOWS
• CHAPTER III: THE SEARCH IN GERMANY
• CHAPTER IV: IN THE FIFTH CIRCLE
• CHAPTER V: PURGATION
• CHAPTER VI: THE THIRTY DAYS’ WAR
• CHAPTER VII: HANGING SWORD ALLEY
• CHAPTER VIII: LADYSMITH
• CHAPTER IX: PRETORIA
• CHAPTER X: INEXTRICABLE ERROR
• CHAPTER XI: THE END OF AN EPOCH 
• CHAPTER XII: A STUDY IN CONTRASTS
• CHAPTER XIII: A LAND OF SLAVERY
• CHAPTER XIV: THE COCOA ISLANDS
• CHAPTER XV: UNDER THE TSAR
• CHAPTER XVI: THE DAYS OF MOSCOW
• CHAPTER XVII: VIVE LA DUMA!
• CHAPTER XVIII: “THE NATION”
• CHAPTER XIX: A VISION OF INDIA
• CHAPTER XX: THE “DAILY NEWS”
• CHAPTER XXI: “VOTES FOR WOMEN”
• CHAPTER XXII: WANDERINGS MANY
• CHAPTER XXIII: THE GATHERING STORM
• CHAPTER XXIV: THE EYE-WITNESS
• CHAPTER XXV: IRISH PATRIOTS
• CHAPTER XXVI: WAR AND PEACE
• CHAPTER XXVII: THE BURDEN OF IRELAND
• CHAPTER XXVIII: “SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY”
• CHAPTER XXIX: THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE
• CHAPTER XXX: “BUT O THE HEAVY CHANGE!”
• CHAPTER XXXI: “VAE VICTIS VAE VICTORIBUS”
• CHAPTER XXXII: “LABOUR”
• CHAPTER XXXIII: “THOSE HOLY FIELDS”
• INDEX
• Copyright