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''The Eye in the Door'' is a novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1993, and forming the second part of the ''Regeneration'' trilogy. ''The Eye in the Door'' is set in London, beginning in mid-April, 1918, and continues the interwoven stories of Dr William Rivers, Billy Prior, and Siegfried Sassoon begun in ''Regeneration''. It ends some time before the conclusion of the First World War later the same year. The third part of the trilogy, ''The Ghost Road'', continues the story. Whereas ''Regeneration'' is an anomalous, but not unique, mixture of fact and fiction, ''The Eye in the Door'' acknowledges real events, including the campaign against homosexuals being waged that year by right-wing MP Noel Pemberton Billing, but remains consistently within the realm of fiction. This grants Barker more freedom to explore her characters and their actions, the descriptions of which might be considered slanderous if attributed to real people. A major theme of the book, Prior's intense and indiscriminate bisexuality, is effectively contrasted with Rivers's tepid asexuality and Sassoon's pure homosexuality. Greater fictional scope also permits a deeper treatment of the psychological, political and professional life of the central character, Billy Prior. ==Real people who appear in the ''Regeneration'' trilogy== *Winston Churchill *Charles Lutwidge Dodgson *Robert Graves *Henry Head *Edward Marsh *Wilfred Owen *William Rivers *Robert Baldwin Ross *Bertrand Russell *Siegfried Sassoon *Harold Sherwood Spencer *Lewis Yealland 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Eye in the Door」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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