A Victorian Son - Hardcover

Cloete, Stuart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002110415 ISBN 13: 9780002110419

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1972

Synopsis

Stuart Cloete who was the author of Turning Wheels, Rags of Glory and How Young They Died, now turns to the story of his own eventful life. His work has been intimately connected with the three ruling influences in his life: his birth and childhood in Paris, his World War One experiences and his growing consciousness of his Boer heritage, stemming from his father's people who came to South Africa with Van Riebeeck.
In this first volume of autobiography, Stuart Cloete describes with loving nostalgia Paris of La Belle Epoque, when women were feminine, fathers were stern and children seen and seldom heard except by their wet-nurses and uniformed nannies.
After attending public school in England, Stuart Cloete went straight into the army, being one of the youngest commissioned officers in the war, in which he served in the Yorkshire Light Infantry, transferring later to the Coldstream Guards. Twice wounded in action, the second time very seriously, readers of How Young They Died will soon realise how much of his own story went into that novel of life in the trenches, with the blood and mud relieved only occasionally by the gaiety of London. This first volume ends in 1922 when Major Stuart Cloete, now married, resumes life in France.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002110415
• ISBN 13: 9780002110419
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 319