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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
by Sassoon, Siegfried
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Webster, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. No jacket. General wear. 1929 Hard Cover. 376 pp. The first volume in Siegfried Sassoon’s beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston. 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.
Synopsis
George was born into a world of village cricket matches and fox-hunting, but his failing income and the onset of war threatens his way of life. A touching depiction of pre-First World War Britain, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is also a coming-of-age story which follows George from a shy and awkward childhood, through shiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand the horrors of trench warfare...Written after Siegfried Sassoon's return from the First World War but looking back at happier times, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man was published anonymously in 1928. Already established as a poet, this was Sassoon's first attempt at fiction - and Faber & Faber's first bestseller.
Reviews
On Feb 16 2017, a reader said:
First read it I my 20's and have read it every decade since. I am now 79.Says it all
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Details
- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Muse Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2335330
- Title
- Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
- Author
- Sassoon, Siegfried
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Coward-McCann, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- 0x0x0
- Weight
- 1.25 lbs
- Keywords
- SPORTS HUNTING FOX HUNTING AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL HISTORICAL FICTION
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Webster, New York
About Yesterday's Muse Books
Yesterday's Muse Inc. is an independent used & rare bookseller that has been in operation for over 15 years. We opened our first 'brick and mortar' storefront in December of 2008 in our hometown of Webster, NY.Owner Jonathan Smalter is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), former vice president of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), both of which are trade organizations created to promote ethical online selling practices, and to encourage continuing education among fellow booksellers. He is also a 2011 graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS). He has nearly 20 years of experience in the book trade, during which time he has become adept at evaluating used and collectible books.
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