Sassoon's Sketches: Second Edition
Sassoon's Sketches: Second Edition

Author: Elias Sassoon

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2009-11-08

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0557181445

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I begin. There is nothing. There are no thoughts, no actions. The blank page stares back at me. I wonder where the ideas will come from? Battling through the fears and self doubts. I doubt myself. I don't know why! I have always been the shy, scared clown? Why! Could my childhood, filled with put-downs and empty of praises, hold the key? That's too easy. In truth, my nature is spun from my father's, and his sense of inferiority and dissatisfaction. Does this help me as I sit here amidst skyscraper avenue attempting to formulate these sketches. Wait! My pen is quivering. The words are forming around an idea; I have the picture. Contact! I am ready to start writing these thirty-seven pieces for your delight, pieces sometimes humorous, usually thoughtful, and always entertaining.

Sassoon's Sketches for a Saturday Afternoon
Sassoon's Sketches for a Saturday Afternoon

Author: Elias Sassoon

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 0557199700

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Constantine Vlacmose was anything, but weird. How could a weird man hold down a responsible job like his, a job that called for the utmost stability, mental clarity, intestinal fortitude, fearlessness, well, you get the idea now. You don't think being a cabby in New York City is easy, do you! You try dealing with the crowded streets, the thousands of cars, buses, and trucks, two million on-rushing pedestrians, blaring noise, accidents, cops, firefighters, and assorted other distractions. Easy, are you joking! From: Are You An Ass, A Fool, Or A You-Know-What? So begins one of Elias Sassoon's short stories in Sassoon's Sketches For A Saturday Afternoon.Sassoon is often humorous, usually thoughtful, and always entertaining in these enchanting tales.

Siegfried Sassoon: Scorched Glory
Siegfried Sassoon: Scorched Glory

Author: P. Moeyes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1997-03-24

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0230374565

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Siegfried Sassoon: Scorched Glory is the first survey of the poet's published work since his death and the first to draw on the edited diaries and letters. We learn how Sassoon's family background and Jewish inheritance, his troubled sexuality, his experience of war - in particular his public opposition to it - his relationship to the Georgian poets and other writers, and his eventual withdrawal to country life shaped his creativity. Sassoon's status as a war poet has overshadowed his wider achievements and the complex personality behind them. This critical evaluation of Sassoon's work is long overdue and will provide a valuable starting-point for future reappraisals of a writer for whom life and art were fused.

Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon

Author: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-01

Total Pages: 686

ISBN-13: 1040277535

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This book encompasses the complete life and works of Siegfried Sassoon, from his patriotic youth that led him to the frontline, to the formation of his anti-war convictions, great literary friendships and flamboyant love affairs.

American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author: Stephanie L. Herdrich

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 0870999524

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"The Museum's collection illuminates all aspects of Sargent's career. The drawings and watercolors in particular reflect his activity outside the portrait studio: his sojourns in Spain, Morocco and elsewhere in North Africa, and in the Middle East; his enduring fascination with Venice; his holidays in the Italian lake district and the Alps; his tours of North America, including Florida and the Rocky Mountains; his visit as an official war artist to the western front in 1918; and his work as a muralist at the Boston Public Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Harvard University's Widener Library."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Survivors of a Kind
Survivors of a Kind

Author: Brian Bond

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2008-10-20

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1441149805

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"In this collection of essays Brian Bond brings a lifetime's study of the Western Front to the analysis of some of the best-known memoirs of the campaign. Literary and military historians alike will find the result of great value for their own studies, while for the general reader it should help destroy many long-standing myths. It is a worthy climax to a long and distinguished career." Sir Michael Howard This is a unique study of World War One memoirs from a historical perspective. It explores the tremendous effect that war experience had on writers' lives and how they came to terms with it after 1918, in deeply moving and often brilliant writing. As well as such famous literary figures as Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, it includes historically significant writers such as Lord Reith, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan. It challenges the view that memoir writers were in any clear sense 'anti-war'. While many were appalled by heavy losses and awful conditions they were, however, determined to achieve victory and proud of their regimental service and comrades. Above all, they constitute a brilliant source for understanding the war on the Western Front.

Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon

Author: Max Egremont

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-12-13

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 9780374263751

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From his famous war poems to the gentler vision of his prose, Siegfried Sassoon wrote masterfully of war and lost idylls. This work and its complex author are illuminated in Egremont's definitive biography.