Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man: The Memoirs of George Sherston

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man: The Memoirs of George Sherston

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man: The Memoirs of George Sherston

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man: The Memoirs of George Sherston

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Overview

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 sense of storytelling, presents his own loss of innocence and the destruction of the country he knew and loved.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101598863
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/28/2013
Series: The George Sherston Trilogy , #1
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 993,411
File size: 1 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) was a poet and novelist whose novels include the James Tait Black Award–winning Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. He is recognized as one of the great poets of World War I and one of the war’s most influential opponents.

Paul Fussell (1925–2012) was a writer, editor, and historian whose experiences in World War II led to his writing the award-winning classic The Great War and Modern Memory. He was also the editor of the collection Sassoon’s Long Journey.

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Angus Wilson

"The essence of Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is neither historical no exotic; it is one of the most subtle and moving narratives of a youth's education in life, of the gradual breakdown of an ego centric universe that is happy, innocent and hopeless." -- The Observer

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