Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man

Faber Modern Classics

Siegfried Sassoon

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Faber & Faber
24 June 2015

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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.

By: Siegfried Sassoon
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Faber Modern Classics
Dimensions: Height: 200mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 279g
ISBN: 9780571322831
ISBN 10: 0571322832
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 24 June 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886. He served in the trenches during the First World War, where he began to write the poems for which he is remembered. 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.