The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916 - Couverture souple

Manning, Frederic

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140184619 ISBN 13 : 9780140184617

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1990

Synopsis

First published anonymously in 1929, this book was from the start an underground classic, considered by Hemmingway, Eliot, Pound, T.E.Lawrence, and Arnold Bennett as the ultimate novel of trench warfare, evoking the horror, brutality, futility, nobility, and courage of war.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A moving, raw and powerful novel about fighting on the front - 'The finest and noblest book of men in war that I have ever read' (Ernest Hemingway)Bourne is a private fighting on the front. He is under pressure to accept a commission and become an officer, but he prefers to be among the ranks, drawn into the universal struggle for survival in a world gone mad. Manning's startling work is unlike any other First World War novel in its portrayal of the lives of ordinary British soldiers: the trauma of the Somme; the moments of bloodlust; the camaraderie, rivalry, alcohol and boredom. Considered obscene for its language and previously published in censored form as Her Privates We, The Middle Parts of Fortune appears here in its raw, unexpurgated version.

Quatrième de couverture

'The finest novel to come out of the First World War' William Boyd

'They can say what they bloody well like, but we're a fuckin' fine mob.'

Deep in the mud, stench of the Somme, Bourne is trying his best to stay alive. There he finds the intense fraternity of war and fear unlike anything he has ever known.
Frederic Manning's novel was first published anonymously in 1929. The honesty with which he wrote about the horror, the boredom, and the futility of war inspired Ernest Hemingway to read the novel every year, 'to remember how things really were so that I will never lie to myself nor to anyone else about them'.

See also: War Stories

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140184619
• ISBN 13: 9780140184617
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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