Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

First published in 1928, this fictionalized memoir is narrated by George Sherston, a shy boy raised by an aunt in a Kentish village. He learns to ride, follows the hounds, and measures himself against local sportsmen, point-to-point races, and the comfortable rituals of the pre-war countryside. Cricket, horses, and the hunt occupy most of the book. The last movement takes him into the yeomanry and then toward France as the 1914 war begins, still half thinking in the language of the stable. The work is a rural coming-of-age tale that opens a war trilogy, not a treatise on hunting or a straight autobiography.

Eleven Integrated line-. Full pale brown cloth covers printed with a design in red and black by Lamb. Green endleaves. Page tops stained green. Mid-brown or green textured slipcase.