A Life of One's Own

Childhood and Youth

• Author(s): Gerald Brenan,
• Publisher: CUP Archive
• Pages: 272
• ISBN_10: 0521297346
  ISBN_13: 9780521297349
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / European / General ,

Description:... "Brenan records his childhood, adolescence, and early manhood ... Born into a well-to-do army family in 1894, he spent his early years in South Africa and India before being sent to a traditional English public school ... Caught up in the First World War, he returned to the caste he had rejected, and served with distinction as an officer at the front ... the volume ends with his setting off to live in Spain ... to learn what it meant to be himself, and to become a writer."--P.[4] of cover.