Sassoon, the English novelist and poet who, after serving as an officer in World War I, expressed his conviction of the brutality and waste of war in his grim, forceful, realistic verse. He is also known for his three-volume fictional autobiography, at first published anonymously under the title The Memoirs of George Sherston. Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man is the first volume in the trilogy and gives a particularly vivid evocation of the life of the English country gentry before World War I. Contents: Early Days; The Flower Show Match; A Fresh Start; A Day with the Potford; At the Rectory; The Colonel's Cup; Denis Milden as Master; Migration to the Midlands; In the Army; and At the Front.

Poet Siegfried Sassoon's semi-autobiographical novel of an Edwardian young man and his pursuit of a sporting life. Written in 1928, it is Sassoon's literary attempt to distance himself a bit from his war poems.

A fun read in which I learned a certain amount about fox hunting, and life in an upper-middle class Edwardian family. ( )

a must-read ( )

British army officer on the Western Front during WW1 recalls his youth as a rural gentry lad interested only in horses, cricket matches and fox-hunting. A delightful tale of Victorian England which received the Huntington Prize in 1928.