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The Sherston trilogy is a series of books by the English poet and novelist , Siegfried Sassoon , consisting of Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Memoirs of an Infantry Officer , and Sherston 's Progress .. English poet. English poet. novelist. novelist. Siegfried Sassoon. Siegfried Sassoon. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. They are named after the protagonist , George Sherston ; a young Englishman of the upper middle-class , living immediately before and during the First World War .. George Sherston. George Sherston. First World War. World War I. The books are , in fact , ` fictionalised autobiography ' , wherein the only truly fictional things are the names of the characters .. autobiography. autobiography. Sassoon himself is represented by Sherston .. A comparison of the Sherston memoirs to Sassoon 's later , undiluted autobiographical trilogy -LRB- The Old Century , The Weald of Youth , and Siegfried 's Journey -RRB- shows their strict similarity , and it is generally accepted that all six books constitute a composite portrait of the author , and of his life as a young man .. -LRB- Sassoon remarked , however , that his alter-ego personified only one-fifth of his actual personality .. Unlike his author , Sherston has no poetic inclinations ; nor does he deal with homosexuality - an act which was illegal at the time Sassoon was writing . -RRB-. homosexuality. homosexuality. The Sherston trilogy won high acclaim , and Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man took the Hawthornden Prize for Literature for 1928 .. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Hawthornden Prize. Hawthornden Prize. The three books were printed together in one volume , The Memoirs of George Sherston , in 1937 .. George Sherston. George Sherston. The Memoirs of George Sherston. The Memoirs of George Sherston. Category  : Literary trilogies