1975, ISBN: 019211719X

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[EAN: 9780192117199], Near Fine, [PU: Oxford University Press and Chatto and Windus, London], WILFRED OWEN; FIRST WORLD WAR; LITERATURE; JON STALLWORTHY; THE GREAT HISTORY; MILITARY WAR O… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780192117199], Near Fine, [PU: Oxford University Press and Chatto and Windus, London], WILFRED OWEN; FIRST WORLD WAR; LITERATURE; JON STALLWORTHY; THE GREAT HISTORY; MILITARY WAR ONE, Biography & Autobiography|Literary, History|Europe|Great Britain|World War I (1914-1918), Biography & Autobiography|Historical, Jacket, First reprint of the first edition (the book was first published in 1974). Black and white illustrations throughout. Winner of The Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and the W.H. Smith & Son Literary Award. ***Cover illustration shows 'a working party from Wilfred Owen's battalion in January 1917.' ***Near fine in dark brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to black gilt-bordered block to spine. Tan and black printed map-illustrated front and rear endpapers and pastedowns showing: 'North-East France -showing the stages of German withdrawal to the Hindenberg Line 1917'. No inscriptions. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a near fine price-clipped red, black and white printed and monochrome-illustrated dustwrapper. Red titles to spine of dustwrapper slightly faded. Rear and front panels of dustwrapper bright. No tears.***335 pages including index to rear. 242 mm x 164 mm. ***'Orpheus, the pagan saint of poets, went through hell and came back singing. In twentieth-century mythology the singer wears a steel helmet and makes his descent to the Underworld 'down some profound dull tunnel' in the viscid mud of the Western Front. For most readers of English poetry the face under the helmet is that of Wilfred Owen, but the accretions of myth have tended to obscure the features of the living man. These for the first time are revealed in Jon Stallworthy's vivid biography. He dispels the notion that the shock of the trenches produced a poet of instant maturity, illustrating with poems never before published - many of them disturbingly prophetic - the ten-year apprenticeship begun in the back streets of Birkenhead. From Owen's letters, from discussions with his relatives and friends, from his annotations in the small library of books that was his most prized possession, and from a mass of unpublished manuscripts, Jon Stallworthy retraces the life so tragically cut short in a furious battle (with four Victoria crosses won before sunrise) on the bank of the Sambre Canal. Certain to become the standard biography of one of the heroes of our time, this book is something more: a poet's illuminating enquiry into the operations of the poet's mind.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First reprint of the first edition, profusely illustrated, in its original dustwrapper, in very nice condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc., Books<

1974, ISBN: 019211719X

[EAN: 9780192117199], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Oxford University Press, Oxford], Jacket, Plastic Jacket Over Original Jacket, Slight Scuffs And Marks, Binding Strong And Secure… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780192117199], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Oxford University Press, Oxford], Jacket, Plastic Jacket Over Original Jacket, Slight Scuffs And Marks, Binding Strong And Secure, Slight Foxing On Page Edges, Pages Slightly Yellowed, Otherwise Clean, Books<