Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

by Siegfried Sassoon

Overview

George Sherston develops from a shy and awkward child, through shiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand the horrors of trench warfare. The world he grows up in, of village cricket and loyal grooms, had vanished forever by the time Sassoon wrote this book, but he captures it with a lyricism and gentleness that defy nostalgia.

A bestseller on publication in 1928, this superb evocation of the Edwardian age has remained in print ever since. It was the first volume of a classic trilogy, completed by Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston's Progress, that charted both the destruction of the world for which Sassoon fought, and his own emergence as one of Britain's finest war poets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780571064540
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Publication date:	01/01/1960
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.52(w) x 7.74(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

The celebrated British poet, editor, critic, novelist, and diarist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) enlisted for military service on the first day of World War I; his friends in the service included Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen. Sassoon's war poems were originally published in The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918). After the war, he went on to write several other books of poetry and criticism, as well as six volumes of prose autobiography.

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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