Journey's End - R. C. Sherriff

Journey'sEnd

R.C. Sherriff

Format: Kitap

Barkod: 9780141183268

Cilt Durumu: Ciltsiz

Ürün Tanıtımı

Hailedby George Bernard Shaw as 'useful [corrective] to the romantic conception ofwar', R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End is an unflinching vision of life in thetrenches towards the end of the First World War, published in Penguin Classics.

Setin the First World War, Journey's End concerns a group of British officers onthe front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a neweighteen-year-old officer fresh out of English public school, joins thebesieged company of his friend and cricketing hero Stanhope, and finds himdramatically changed. Laurence Olivier starred as Stanhope in the firstperformance of Journey's End in 1928; the play was an instant stage success andremains a remarkable anti-war classic.

R.C.Sherriff (1896-1975) joined the army shortly after the outbreak of the FirstWorld War, serving as a captain in the East Surrey regiment. After the war, aninterest in amateur theatricals led him to try his hand at writing. Followingrejection by many theatre managements, Journey's End was given a singleperformance by the Incorporated Stage Society, in which Lawrence Olivier tookthe lead role. The play's enormous success enabled Sherriff to become afull-time writer, with plays such as Badger's Green (1930), St Helena (1935),and The Long Sunset (1955); though he is also remembered as a screenplaywriter, for films such as The Invisible Man (1933), Goodbye Mr Chips (1933) andThe Dam Busters (1955).

Ifyou enjoyed Journey's End, you might like Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That,available in Penguin Modern Classics.

'Itsunrelenting tension, and its regard for human decency in a vast world of humanwaste, are impressive and, even now, moving'

CliveBarnes

Özellikler

Basım Dili: İngilizce

Sayfa Sayısı: 96

En / Boy: 13,00 x 20,00 cm

Kağıt Cinsi: 2.Hamur

BasımTarihi: Haziran 2021