MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN. By Siegfried Sassoon. The Faber Library - No. 1.
(1928) 1934 Faber Library reprint. Small 8vo (119 x 181mm). Pp344. Unillustrated. Green cloth, spine decoratively titled in gilt.
This is Sassoon's famous semi-autobiographical novel which quickly ran to many impressions. The main character's time in France in the First World War occupies the last two chapters. The rest of the book is a fascinating account of a childhood and youth of mildly faded gentility in a countryside lacking motorcars and mains electricity. "Not only a prose masterpiece, but also a picture of the England which was shattered by the War." (Edmund Blunden). "It is one of the most subtle and moving narratives of youth's education in life, of the gradual breakdown of an egocentric universe that is happy, innocent and hopeless." (Angus Wilson).
This is Sassoon's famous semi-autobiographical novel which quickly ran to many impressions. The main character's time in France in the First World War occupies the last two chapters. The rest of the book is a fascinating account of a childhood and youth of mildly faded gentility in a countryside lacking motorcars and mains electricity. "Not only a prose masterpiece, but also a picture of the England which was shattered by the War." (Edmund Blunden). "It is one of the most subtle and moving narratives of youth's education in life, of the gradual breakdown of an egocentric universe that is happy, innocent and hopeless." (Angus Wilson).
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Book Code
40137
| Author | Sassoon (Siegfried). |
|---|---|
| Book Code | 40137 |
| ISBN | No ISBN. |
| Book Description | Slight stains to cloth, slight browning else good-plus in spine-tanned dust-wrapper. |
| Book Cover | Hardcover |
| Published Date | 1934 |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber. |
| Place | London. |