Knapsacks - Paperback

by J. -K Huysmans (Author), Joris Karl Huysmans (Author)

Originally written in 1877 and then reworked for inclusion in the 1880 Naturalist anthology Les Soir es de M dan, this novella tells the story of the daily life of a French conscript during the Franco-Prussian war--a life of tears, lice, and filth.