The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (Faber Paper-Covered Editions)

Author: Sassoon, Siegfried

Brand: Penguin Random House

Edition: Main

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 656

Release Date: 05-01-1937

Part Number: 9780571099139

Details: Product Description

The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston includes
Sherston's Progress and both
Memoirs.


Review

"The most satisfying piece of autobiography to be published in our time. All the equipment of a novelist is Sassoon's. But what novel could equal in fascination this true story? The three books give him a place unique in English letters" --Howard Spring,
English Standard


About the Author
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.

EAN: 9780571099139

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.0 x 2.0 inches

Languages: English