RICHARD ALDINGTON

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.

Edición Bilingüe Español-InglésRichard Aldington, junto con Ezra Pound y Hilda Doolittle, crearon el movimiento imaginista, considerado por T.S. Eliot como el punto de partida de la poesía moderna en

First published in 1923, Exile and Other Poems is an important, poignant collection from one of the foremost Imagist war poets. Penned after witnessing the horrors of the frontline during the First World War, Aldingtons brutal, honest verse lays bare unimaginable experiences.The first part of the collection, Exile, explores the poets survivors guilt, post-traumatic stress and sense of alienation. The collection continues with a Songs for Puritans and Songs for Sensualists, pastiches of seventeenth and eighteenth-century love poetry, and a series of more personal poems exploring the natural world, from which Aldington drew reassurance.Enriched with a fascinating introduction and explanatory notes by leading Aldington scholars Elizabeth Vandiver and Vivien Whelpton, this centenary edition seeks to place Exile firmly back on the map of war poetry, from which it has been missing for too long.