Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143107156 (0143107151)
Publish date: May 28th 2013
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
20th Century,
War,
Poetry
Series: The Sherston Memoir (#1)
A murder most mundaneWhat if ? after eating a great meal alone, maybe you’ve had a couple of glasses of your favourite spirit, & now thoroughly relaxed you look out of the window, casting a comfortable possessive eye over this, your neighbourhood, your domain that you know every brick of. What if w...
The last portion of this book throws the first into stark relief. While I enjoyed the first section, it didn't grab me - it was a calm meandering from hunting meet to hunting meet, from a quiet life to brief flurries of activity on a horse. Nothing really happened, nothing changed.And then, of cours...
3 – 3.5 starsOn the one hand Siegfried Sassoon’s _The Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man_ (the first volume in a trilogy)can be seen as a paen to the idyllic way of life of a country gentleman before the war to end all wars destroyed any pretence to concepts of chivalry and gallant action. On the other ha...
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