{"product_id":"the-middle-parts-of-fortune-by-frederic-manning-9781921922381","title":"The Middle Parts Of Fortune","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe drumming of the guns continued, with bursts of great intensity. It was as though a gale streamed overhead, piling up great waves of sound, and hurrying them onwards to crash in surf on the enemy entrenchments. The windless air about them, by its very stillness, made that unearthly music more terrible to hear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published anonymously in 1929 because its language was considered far too frank for public circulation, \u003cem\u003eThe Middle Parts of Fortune\u003c\/em\u003e was hailed by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, by Lawrence of Arabia and Ernest Hemingway, as an extraordinary novel. Its author was in fact Frederic Manning, an Australian writer who fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and who told his story of men at war from the perspective of an ordinary soldier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNever before published in Australia, \u003cem\u003eThe Middle Parts of Fortune\u003c\/em\u003e is now recognised as a twentieth-century classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46555310096620,"sku":"9781921922381","price":17.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7634933482872.jpg?v=1750101026","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-middle-parts-of-fortune-by-frederic-manning-9781921922381","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}