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Siegfried Sassoon, primarily known for his war poems, got commercial success and critical acclaim for his first prose venture, The Memoir of a Fox-Hunting Man(1928) for which he bagged the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Hawthorndon Prize in 1929. Sassoon followed it up with The Memoir of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston’s Progress (1936). These three books (hereafter will be referred as Sherston memoirs/first trilogy) were published later collectively as The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston in 1937. The trilogy presents a lightly fictionalised account of Sassoon’s own life. There are many critical questions surrounding these three books about their generic status (which will be addressed in detail later). Apart from this fictionalised autobiographical trilogy Sassoon has also written three ‘real’ autobiographies: The Old Century and Seven More Years (1938), The Weald of Youth (1942) and Siegfried’s Journey (1945).

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