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Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man (inbunden, eng)
I can hear the creak of the saddle and the clop and clink of hoofs as we cross the bridge over the brook by Dundell Farm; there is a l...
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I can hear the creak of the saddle and the clop and clink of hoofs as we cross the bridge over the brook by Dundell Farm; there is a light burning in the farmhouse window, and the evening star glitters above a broken drift of half-luminous cloud… It is with a sigh that I remember simple moments such as those, when I understood so little of the deepening sadness of life, and only the strangeness of the spring was knocking at my heart.
In the 1920s, a young man, grappling with the horrors of the war from which he had just returned, decided to write about a happier timeA time of cricket matches and fox-hunting, the busyness of village life and the shyness of youth.
That man was Siegfried Sassoon, and this is his book. Originally published anonymously, it went on to become Faber & Faber’s first bestseller. A classic depiction of pre-First World War Britain, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man tells two mirrored stories, about a boy coming of age and a country losing its innocence.
Format | Inbunden |
Omfång | 352 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Faber & Faber |
Utgivningsdatum | 2017-11-02 |
ISBN | 9780571337262 |
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Böcker
- Inbunden, 352, Engelska, Faber & Faber, 2017-11-02, 9780571337262
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Inbunden
- Antal sidor 352
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Faber & Faber
- Utgivningsdatum 2017-11-02
- ISBN 9780571337262