Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

In Siegfried Sassoon's acclaimed first novel, part of the semiautobiographical George Sherston trilogy, the author reflects on the idyllic Edwardian English countryside and the inevitable shadow of World War I. Through the lens of young George Sherston, readers experience a world filled with local cricket tournaments and fox-hunts that is ultimately disrupted as war looms. First published in 1928 and never out of print since, the narrative combines humor with poignant themes of innocence lost and the destruction of a cherished landscape.