The Great War tells the story of the destruction of the 19th century -of its class system and its faith in progress really, of any way of living predicated on a stable system of value -by World War I. Urn:oclc:23762630 Republisher_date 20120609134648 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120608005122 Scanner you’d asked me at the time why I was loading up my Tardis and suffering the unique pleasures (delay, flame-retardant décor, microwave odors, bad cell-phone etiquette) of domestic rail travel, I would have said: “”Paul Fussell.” Fussell, who died this week at the age of 88, was an English professor at the University of Pennsylvania.įussell had written a guide to poetic form and an equally fine critical life of Samuel Johnson when, in 1975, he broke out as an intellectual celebrity with The Great War and Modern Memory, which won the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Fussell on class