All Roads Lead to Calvary (novel)

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]

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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.

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