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Two-Year Subscription + Edith Wharton Issue (Eight Issues)
Get two years of The Strand Magazine and begin with Issue LXXVIII — a special issue featuring Edith Wharton’s “The Men Who Saved the World,” a rare wartime story appearing in our pages for the first time.
Wharton’s story takes readers to the summer of 1918, inside a French château only a few miles from the front. The table has been restored to its old grandeur — orchids, candles, glassware, and the old codes of polite society — though the same room had earlier witnessed the brutal realities of war. Outside, the guns can still be heard. Inside, the guests carry on.
Appearing in print in this issue, “The Men Who Saved the World” is a powerful example of Wharton’s wartime fiction and her sharp social eye. It explores the distance between those who endure war directly and those who are able to turn catastrophe into background noise.
This issue also includes a major interview with Alexander McCall Smith, one of the most cherished voices in contemporary fiction, discussing storytelling, character, philosophy, and the quiet wisdom that runs through his work. You’ll also find an interview with Sophie Hannah, plus fiction by Walter Mosley, Stephen Spotswood, and Mike Adamson, including a new Sherlock Holmes mystery.
A two-year subscription is ideal for readers who want more than a single issue — more fiction, more author interviews, more reviews, and more of the rare literary discoveries and classic suspense that define The Strand.
A smart choice for devoted mystery readers, collectors, and anyone who wants to stay with The Strand beyond this special Wharton issue.
