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The first volume in Siegfried Sassoons beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston , with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul Fussell 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 youngGeorge 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. About the Author Siegfried Sassoon (18861967) was a poet and novelist whose novels include the James Tait Black

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Author

Sassoon, Siegfried; Fussell, Paul

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101598863

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (86 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14