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Siegfried Sassoon A Biography A Biography

Name: Siegfried Sassoon A Biography
Author: Max Egremont

Auteur: Max Egremont

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Max Egremont

Engels
Paperback
9781447243281
10 oktober 2013
656 pagina's

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The authorized biography of a literary legend, written with unique access to all of Sassoon's previously unseen papers.

‘Unmistakably the best thing anybody has ever written about Sassoon’ D. J. Taylor, Independent

The life of Siegfried Sassoon has been recorded and interpreted in literature and film for over half a century. He is one of the great figures of the First World War, and Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer are still widely read, as are his poems, which did much to shape our present ideas about the Great War. Sassoon was a genuine hero, a brave young officer who also became the war's most famous opponent, risking imprisonment and even a death sentence by throwing his Military Cross into the Mersey. He was friend to Robert Graves, mentor to Wilfred Owen and much admired by Churchill. But Sassoon was more than the embodiment of a romantic ideal; he was in many senses the perfect product of a vanished age. And many questions about his character, unique experience and motivations have remained unanswered until now.

Siegfried Sassoon’s life has been recorded and interpreted in literature and film for over half a century. But this poet, First World War hero, friend to Robert Graves and mentor to Wilfred Owen, was more than the embodiment of a romantic ideal.

Passionately involved with the aristocratic aesthete Stephen Tennant, married abruptly to the beautiful Hester Gatty, estranged, isolated, and a late Catholic convert, his private story has never before been told in such depth. Egremont discovers a man born in a vanished age, unhappy with his homosexuality and the modernist revolution that appeared to threaten the survival of his work, and engaged in an enduring personal battle between idealism and the world in which he moved.

Shortlisted for the 2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Autobiography

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 10 oktober 2013
Aantal pagina's: 656
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Max Egremont
Hoofduitgeverij: Pica

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Originele titel: Siegfried Sassoon

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Product breedte: 131 mm
Product hoogte: 40 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 132 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 197 mm
Verpakking lengte: 47 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 514 g

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EAN: 9781447243281

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Categorieën: Taal

Biografieën & Waargebeurd

Poëzie, Bloemlezingen & Letterkunde

Schrijvers & Uitgevers

Literatuurwetenschap

Taalwetenschap

1900 tot 2000

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Taal: Engels
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
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