Siegfried Sassoon

Gebundenes Buch

Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man

Beschreibung

It is with a sigh that I remember simple moments such as those, when I understood so little of the deepening sadness of life, and only the strangeness of the spring was knocking at my heart. In the 1920s, a young man, grappling with the horrors of the war from which he had just returned, decided to write about a happier time.

Autor

Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. He served in the trenches during the First World War, where he began to write the poems for which he is remembered. Despatched as 'shell-shocked' to hospital, he organised public protest against the war. His poetry initially met with little response, but his reputation grew steadily in the following decades. Apart from the War Poems of 1919, he published eight volumes of verse during his lifetime. But it is as a novelist and autobiographer that he is perhaps better known. Sassoon's semi-autobiographical trilogy, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston's Progress (1936), was outstandingly successful. He published several more volumes of autobiography, including Siegfried's Journey (1945), before his death in 1967.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780571337262
• ISBN-10: 0571337260
• Artikelnr.: 48930794