Name: Sherston's Progress
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Author: Paul Fussell
ISBN: 9780143107170

Type

Physical Book

Author

Siegfried Sassoon

Introduction by

Paul Fussell

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6 x 13.2 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN

0143107178

ISBN13

9780143107170

Synopsis "Sherston's Progress "

The third volume in Siegfried Sassoon's beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul Fussell A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. Having been deemed mentally ill for his anti-war sentiments and sent for treatment, George Sherston comes under the care of neurologist Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, who allows Sherston to sort through his attitudes toward the fighting (events that have also been semi-fictionalized by Pat Barker for her bestselling and critically acclaimed Regeneration Trilogy). After six months in the hospital, Sherston leaves to rejoin his regiment. He is soon dispatched to Ireland, where he attempts to reclaim some of the idyllic fox-hunting days of his youth, then to Palestine. He finally ends up at the Western Front in France, where he is shot in the head while on a reconnaissance mission and invalided back home. As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress--whose evocation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is not at all accidental--literally brings home the unforgettable journey of George Sherston from aristocratic childhood through war hero and anti-war martyr, all the way to wounded veteran trying to move on from the Great War. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Paul Fussell

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United States, 1924. Historian, writer, and professor of literature at the University of Pennsylvania, he was marked by his experiences at nineteen as an infantry officer in France in 1945. Since then, he has sought to demystify the romanticism of battle by studying in depth the two world wars in his publications, studies that have earned him the National Book Award for Arts and Letters or the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

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