Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
The first volume in Siegfried Sassoon's beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul FussellA 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 sense of storytelling, presents his own loss of innocence and the destruction of the country he knew and loved.
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Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), a prominent British poet, editor, critic, writer, and diarist, enrolled for military service on the first day of World War I, alongside Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen. The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918) were the first books to publish Sassoon's war poems. He went on to publish numerous more books of poetry and criticism after the war, as well as six volumes of prose autobiography.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143107156 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143107151 |
| Title | Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man |
| Author | Siegfried Sassoon |
| Series | The George Sherston Trilogy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2013-05-28 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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