Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man

Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man (1928) is the first volume of Siegfried Sassoon's semi-autobiographical trilogy, a coming-of-age story that moves from rural innocence to the shadow of war. The novel follows George Sherston, Sassoon's fictional alter ego, who grows up in the quiet English countryside before World War I. As a boy, Sherston lives a sheltered, almost idyllic life filled with pony rides, c...