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　　In The Fatal Englishman, his first work of nonfiction,

Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three remarkable men. Each

had the seeds of greatness; each was a beacon to his generation and

left something of value behind; yet each one died tragically

young.

Christopher Wood, only twenty-nine when he killed himself, was a

painter who lived most of his short life in the beau monde of 1920s

Paris, where his charm, good looks, and the dissolute life that

followed them sometimes frustrated his ambition and achievement as

an artist.

Richard Hillary was a WWII fighter pilot who wrote a classic

account of his

experiences, The Last Enemy, but died in a mysterious training

accident while defying doctor’s orders to stay grounded after

horrific burn injuries; he was twenty-three.

Jeremy Wolfenden, hailed by his contemporaries as the brightest

Englishman of

his generation, rejected the call of academia to become a hack

journalist in Cold War Moscow. A spy, alcoholic, and open

homosexual at a time when such activity was still illegal, he died

at the age of thirty-one, a victim of his own recklessness and of

the peculiar pressures of his time.

Through the lives of these doomed young men, Faulks paints an

oblique

portrait of English society as it changed in the twentieth

century, from the Victorian era to the modern world.

List of lUustrations

Author's Note

Christopher Wood

Richard HiUary

Jeremy Wolfenden

Acknowledgements and Sources

Postscript to Paperback Edition.

　　Sebastian Faulks is best known for his trilogy of novels set

in France: The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong, and

Charlotte Gray, the latter two of which were bestsellers.

After a period in France, he and his family now live in London.

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　　Compelling and stunningly written.? ?The Times (London)

　　Faulks is a prodigiously talented writer.? ?The New York

Times

　　You may not have heard of the subjects of these three essays, but

please do not let that hinder you. . . . [Faulks?s] spare narrative

hides a commitment to his subjects which pulls you in and leaves

you gasping for these lost lives.? ?Mail on Sunday

　　Flawless. . . . Poetic. . . . Superbly portrayed. . . .

[Faulks?s] feat of imagination . . . is phenomenal.? ?Daily

Telegraph -- Review

书籍介绍

The author of Birdsong here chronicles balked lives of three brilliant men - artist Christopher Wood, spitfire pilot Richard Hillary and journalist Jeremy Wolfenden. Each of these lives is poignant on its own terms but Faulks's achievement is to show how each man was emblematic of the ethical climate of the era in which he lived and died.