Wrexham, Wales: Bridge Books, 2001. Pp. 71. ISBN 1-872424-93-7 Philip G. Hadlock, Texas Christian University As any reader of Western literature can attest, war has proven to be a fertile terrain for the literary imagination. In his new book, Michael Weatherilt assays Maupassant's place among the countless authors who have cultivated this field by assigning prominence to warfare in their works. Linking Maupassant to a continuum which stretches from Homer to Hemingway, Weatherilt devotes the introduction of his study to a rumination on war's relationship to literature. His conclusions in this...
