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Item Information       More Content     More by this author     Manning, Frederic.     Subjects     Great Britain. Army -- History -- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.     World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front -- Fiction.     Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Fiction.     Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 -- Fiction.     World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Manning, Frederic.       by title:      The middle parts of ...       by call number:      FICTION MAN     Search the Web     Manning, Frederic.     Great Britain. Army -- History -- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.     World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front -- Fiction.     Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Fiction.     Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 -- Fiction.     World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The middle parts of fortune / Frederic Manning. by Manning, Frederic. Vintage Books, 2014. Call #: FICTION MAN Subjects Great Britain. Army -- History -- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.   World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front -- Fiction.   Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Fiction.   Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 -- Fiction.   World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction. Series Vintage classics. URL856 Project Gutenberg online text version. ISBN:  9780099589235 (pbk.) 0099589230 (pbk.) Edition:  Vintage Classics edition. Description:  ix, 338 p. ; 20 cm. Notes:  "First published in Great Britain by Peter Davies Ltd in 1929 as The Middle Parts of Fortune. Published in an expurgated version by Peter Davies Ltd in 1930 as Her Privates We. This Vintage Classic edition uses the text of the unexpurgated 1929 version."--Verso of title page. Summary:  Deep in the mud, stench of the Somme, Bourne is trying his best to stay alive. There he finds the intense fraternity of war and fear unlike anything he has ever known. This deeply affecting novel was first published anonymously in 1929 with a print run of just 600. Describing the Battle of the Somme from the viewpoint of an ordinary soldier, it gained instant notoriety for its blunt language and graphic depiction of war. An expurgated version entitled Her Privates We was released a year later, and it was only in 1977 that The Middle Parts of Fortune was republished in the powerful original form. The honesty with which he wrote about the horror, the boredom, and the futility of war inspired Ernest Hemingway to read the novel every year, 'to remember how things really were so that I will never lie to myself nor to anyone else about them.' Frederic Manning (1882 - 1935) was an Australian poet and novelist. He moved to England in 1903. In October 1915 he enlisted in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Sent to France in 1916, Manning experienced action with the 7th Battalion at the Battle of the Somme, was promoted to lance-corporal and experienced life in the trenches. Genre:  War fiction Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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