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Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man (The Memoirs of George Sherston #1)

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Title:Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man (The Memoirs of George Sherston #1)
Author:
Sassoon, Siegfried   
(2 of 6 for author by title)
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (The Memoirs of George Sherston #2)
Collected Poems
Published:   1928
Publisher:Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
Tags:fiction, memoir, semi-autobiographical, World War I, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Hawthornden Prize
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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.—Goodreads.com. [Suggest a different description.]

Comments:Book is the first of "The Memoirs of George Sherston" trilogy.
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Author Bio for Sassoon, Siegfried

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Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) was a British author and poet. His notoriety began as a war poet, writing first hand from the trenches of the western front where he fought as a soldier in the army. His bleak realism was ignored at the time unlike other patriotic poets but achieved better recognition after the war. His later poetry began to echo his spiritual searches which eventually led him to convert to Catholicism in 1957. He also achieved success in prose writing. He published a semi-autobiographical trilogy: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930), and Sherston's Progress (1936). He also published an autobiography, The Old Century and Seven More Years (1938) which was his own personal favourite. (Oxford Companion to English Literature).

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