Loading images...
Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, by Siegfried Sassoon
€8.00

Quay Books
‘I can hear the creak of the saddle and the clop and clink of hoofs as we cross the bridge over the brook by Dundell Farm; there is a light burning in the farmhouse window, and the evening star glitters above a broken drift of half-luminous cloud. It is with a sigh that I remember simple moments such as those, when I understood so little of the deepening sadness of life, and only the strangeness of the spring was knocking at my heart.’
In the 1920s, a young man, grappling with the horrors of the war from which he had just returned, decided to write about a happier time. A time of cricket matches and fox-hunting, the busyness of village life and the shyness of youth.
That man was Siegfried Sassoon, and this is his book. Originally published anonymously, it went on to become Faber & Faber's first bestseller. A classic depiction of pre-First World War Britain, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man tells two mirrored stories, about a boy coming of age and a country losing its innocence.
More from Quay Books Browse Quay Books All
Shooting Lincoln: Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and the Race to Photograph the Story of the Century, by Nicholas J.C. Pistor
€8.00
€25.00
68% off
The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books, by Marta McDowell
€10.00
€27.00
62% off
View from the West: Being the Third Volume of Autobiography, by Claud Cockburn
€16.00
The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture, by Brian Dear
€10.00
€40.00
75% off
Michael Rosen's Sad Book, by Michael Rosen with Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
€4.00
€7.99
49% off
London Marco Polo Handbook, by Marco Polo Travel Publishing
€7.00
€20.00
65% off
A Ploughing People: The Farming Life Celebrated - Stories, Traditions, The Championships, by Valerie Cox
€7.00
€26.00
73% off
Churchill, by Roy Jenkins
€9.00
€25.00
64% off