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

Sassoon, Siegfried

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571099130 ISBN 13: 9780571099139

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1960

Synopsis

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

About this title

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.

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 this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1960
• ISBN 10: 0571099130
• ISBN 13: 9780571099139
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656