Siegfried Sassoon had built a reputation as a poet and man of letters, though he had not yet published prose. It wasn’t until the end of the decade that he finally made the attempt with
Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man, the first volume of his fictionalized autobiography—and he was so nervous about the prospect of publishing prose that he published it anonymously.
George Sherston, the semi-autobiographical stand-in for Sassoon, is a young boy growing up in the English countryside under the gentle care of his aunt Evelyn. His youth is idyllic, and he spends many afternoons..." data-title="Книга Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man">