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.

Death of a Hero (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Aldington, Richard

United States

Penguin Publishing Group

Voltaire (Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Philosophy)

History

Americas

Routledge

This book, first published in 1929, is an assessment of Voltaire's life and works. It contains valuable biographical details, as well as studies of his works, philosophy, poetry, plays and literary criticism.

Death of a Hero: A Novel

Contemporary

Scholarly Pr

The Duke: Being an Account of the Life and Achievements of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Kessinger Publishing

Literary lifelines, the Richard Aldington-Lawrence Durrell correspondence

Faber and Faber

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.

Richard Aldington & H.D.: The Later Years in Letters

Zilboorg, Caroline

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Arts & Literature

Manchester Univ Pr

Death of a hero

Genre Fiction

SPHERE

Roads to Glory (Short Story Index Reprint Series)

Ayer Co. Pub

Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry

Historical

Praeger

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