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Richard Aldington was born on July 8, 1892 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
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One of the great World War I antiwar novels—honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. Our hero is George Winterbourne, who enlists in the British Expeditionary Army during the Great War and gets sent to France. After a rash of casualties leads to his promotion through the ranks, he grows increasingly cynical about the war and disillusioned by the hypocrisies of British society. Aldington's writing about Britain's ignorance of the tribulations of its soldiers is among the most biting ever published. Death of a Hero vividly evokes the morally degrading nature of combat as it rushes toward its astounding finish. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Signed limited edition hardback book (no dust jacket) titled STEPPING HEAVENWARD: A Record by Richard Aldington. Published by G. Orioli, Florence, in 1931 in a signed limited edition of 808 copies (#151). See my photographs (4) of book and signature on main listing page. Bookseller since 1995 (ULTV-top-R) rareviewbooks
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Editor Zilboorg draws on the later (1929-1961) correspondence between the life-long friends (and one-time spouses) and seminal literary Modernists, Richard Aldington (1892-1962) and Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), to explore their personal and professional lives, their friendships, and topics which concerned them both, including sexuality and the role of literature in the modern world. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Richard Aldington was born on July 8, 1892 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
He was educated at Dover College and London University.
He became known as one of the Imagist group of poets, whose method aroused some interest among literary specialists before World War I, in which he served on the Western Front. Aldington's war experiences led to his first novel and most popular book, Death of a Hero (1929). It was translated into many languages. Later novels--The Colonel's Daughter (1931), All Men Are Enemies (1932), and others--also had an international reception. One of the most learned authors of the day, he also was active as a translator. Aldington continued to appear as a poet when his Imagist phase was over. A Fool i' the Forest (1925) was one of his main productions, with The Eaten Heart (1929) and A Dream in the Luxembourg (1930) among its successors. He also became a lively biographer. His account of the Duke of Wellington (1946) won the Tait Black Memorial prize. He wrote skeptically of Lawrence of Arabia and of Norman Douglas, without convincing many readers. More successful were his study of D. H. Lawrence and The Strange Life of Charles Waterton (1949), on an English eccentric. Aldington died in France on July 27, 1962.
(Editor Zilboorg draws on the later (1929-1961) correspond...)
(One of the great World War I antiwar novels—honest, chill...)
( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)
(Signed limited edition hardback book (no dust jacket) tit...)
(. with chipped dustjacket, 1955, clean tight copy)
(Very good first edition hardcover collectible.)
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(Library book in good condition with jacket)