Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

Name: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
ISBN: 9782320130001

Siegfried Sassoon

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The first volume in Siegfried Sassoon's beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul Fussell
A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war.

In this first novel of the semiautobiographical George Sherston trilogy, Sassoon wonderfully captures the vanishing idylls of the Edwardian English countryside. Never out of print since its original publication in 1928, when it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Sassoon's reminiscences about childhood and the beginning of World War I are channeled through young George Sherston, whose life of local cricket tournaments and fox-hunts falls apart as war approaches and he joins up to fight. Sassoon's first novel, though rife with comic characters and a jaunty...

Catégories:

Poetry - American Poetry

Année:

2013

Editeur::

Penguin Publishing Group

Langue:

english

ISBN 10:

1101598867

ISBN 13:

9782320130001