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

Life for life's sake;: A book of reminiscences

Cassell

Voltaire (Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Philosophy)

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.

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.

First published in 1929, Death of a Hero was described by its author as both a jazz novel and a memorial to a generation. The hero is George Winterbourne. Leaving the Edwardian gloom of his embattled parents behind him, George escapes to Soho, which buzzes, on the eve of war, with talk of politics, pacifism and free love. He paints, he marries, he takes a the perfect hero of his time, whose destiny -- like all those of that lost generation -- is the bloody nightmare of the trenches.

Death of a Hero: A Novel

Contemporary

Scholarly Pr

Review\nAbsence 
 Amalfi 
 Ananke 
 Apathy 
 April Lieder 
 At A Gate By The Way 
 At Mitylene 
 Barrage 
 Battlefield 
 Before Parting 
 The Blood Of The Young Men 
 Bombardment 
 Bondage 
 Bones 
 Bromios 
 Captive 
 Childhood: 1 
 Childhood: 2 
 Childhood: 3 
 Childhood: 4 
 Childhood: 5 
 Church Walk, Kensington 
 Concert 
 Cynthia 
 Daisy 
 Daughter Of Zeus 
 Daybreak 
 Defeat 
 Disdain 
 Doubt: 1 
 Doubt: 2 
 Doubt: 3 
 E.t. Killed Mat, 1917 
 An Earth Goddess 
 Ella 
 Epigram: 1 
 Epigram: 2 
 Epilogue 
 Epilogue (che Son Contenti Nel Fuco) 
 Eros And Psyche 
 Euminides 
 Exile 
 Fantasy 
 The Faun Captive 
 Field Manoeuvres 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 1 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 10 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 11 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 12 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 13 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 14 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 15 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 16 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 17 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 18 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 19 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 2 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 20 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 21 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 22 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 23 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 24 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 25 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 26 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 27 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 28 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 29 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 3 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 30 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 31 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 32 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 33 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 34 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 4 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 5 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 6 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 7 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 8 
 A Fool I' The Forest. A Phantasmagoria: 9 
 Fredom 
 Gain 
 H.s.r. Killed April, 1917 
 Having Seen Men Killed 
 Her Mouth Is A Crushed Flower 
 Hermes, Leader Of The Dead 
 Images Of Desire 
 In The Old Garden 
 In The Palace Garden 
 In The Tube 
 In The Via Sistina 
 Inarticulate Grief 
 Insouciance 
 June Rain 
 Le Maudit 
 Leave-taking 
 Lemures 
 Living Sepulchres 
 London (may, 1915) 
 Loss 
 Machine-guns 
 Meditation 
 Meditation 
 Metrical Exercises 
 Misery 
 A Moment's Interlude 
 Nightingale 
 Odelette 
 An Old Song 
 On The March 
 Papillons (ballet Russe) 
 Portrait 
 Prayer 
 Prelude 
 Proem 
 Reflections: 1 
 Reflections: 2 
 Resentment 
 Reserve 
 Retreat 
 Reverie 
 The River: 1 
 The River: 2 
 Round-pound 
 A Ruined House 
 Scents: White Jonquils 
 Scents: Yellow Jonquils 
 Sleep 
 A Soldier's Song 
 Soliloquy 2 
 Soliloquy: 1 
 Songs For Puritans: 1 
 Songs For Puritans: 10 
 Songs For Puritans: 2 
 Songs For Puritans: 4 
 Songs For Puritans: 5 
 Songs For Puritans: 6 
 Songs For Puritans: 7 
 Songs For Puritans: 8 
 Songs For Puritans: 9 
 Songs For Sensualists, Sels. Only 
 Taintignies 
 Terror 
 Three Little Girls 
 Time's Changes 
 To A Greek Marble (3) 
 To Those Who Played For Safety In Life 
 Trench Idyll 
 Truth 
 A Village 
 Whitechapel 
 A Winter Night 
 The Winter Park\nCopyright© 1998 Roth Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved -- 
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