General (Record no. 226163)
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| control field | 20230103090839.0 |
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | AL |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 23 |
| Classification number | 823.912 |
| Item number | FORG |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | C S Forester |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 68131 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | General |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Australia |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Penguin Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1936 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 233p. |
| Other physical details | PB |
| Dimensions | 18x11cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Source of price type code | English |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The book John Kelly reads every time he gets a promotion to remind him of ‘the perils of hubris, the pitfalls of patriotism and duty unaccompanied by critical thinking’<br/>The most vivid, moving – and devastating – word-portrait of a World War One British commander ever written, here re-introduced by Max Hastings.<br/>C.S. Forester’s 1936 masterpiece follows Lt General Herbert Curzon, who fumbled a fortuitous early step on the path to glory in the Boer War. 1914 finds him an honourable, decent, brave and wholly unimaginative colonel. Survival through the early slaughters in which so many fellow-officers perished then brings him rapid promotion. By 1916, he is a general in command of 100,000 British soldiers, whom he leads through the horrors of the Somme and Passchendaele, a position for which he is entirely unsuited and intellectually unprepared.<br/><br/>Wonderfully human with Forester’s droll relish for human folly on full display, this is the story of a man of his time who is anything but wicked, yet presides over appalling sacrifice and tragedy. In his awkwardness and his marriage to a Duke’s unlovely, unhappy daughter, Curzon embodies Forester’s full powers as a storyteller. His half-hero is patriotic, diligent, even courageous, driven by his sense of duty and refusal to yield to difficulties. But also powerfully damned is the same spirit which caused a hundred real-life British generals to serve as high priests at the bloodiest human sacrifice in the nation’s history. A masterful and insightful study about the perils of hubris and unquestioning duty in leadership, The General is a fable for our times. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | English Fiction |
| 9 (RLIN) | 68132 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | English Novel |
| 9 (RLIN) | 68133 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | FORESTER (C S) |
| 9 (RLIN) | 68134 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Donated Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type | Public note |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | English | St Aloysius Library | St Aloysius Library | 12/09/2014 | 823.912 FORG | D05541 | 01/03/2023 | 01/03/2023 | Donated Books | Donated by V. T. Rajshekar |
