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The Grave
Orville R. Emerson · 1923
A German officer's buried manuscript turns a Flanders dugout into a candlelit chamber of dread after the Great War.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 19 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
Mount Kemmel and the Dugout
Mount KemmelThe fought-over height where the story's papers surface.
Finders and Testimony
Orville R. Emerson and the Pulp Desk
The Finders and the Buried Writer
The Frame Narrator — Profile
Return to KemmelA strange report draws two soldiers back to the fought-over hill.
The TranslationStained pages pass from German paper into the reader's language.
This edition
- Title
- The Grave
- Author
- Orville R. Emerson
- First published
- 1923
- Illustrated plates
- 38 original artworks · 19 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 1 · about 3,841 words
- Reading time
- 15 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- September 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #68957
Neighbours in the library
Chosen by what they share with The Grave — the same years.