The Hireling (Twentieth Century Classics)

Literature & Fiction

L.P. Hartley

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there", begins L. P. Hartley's tale of nostalgia, the reawakening of lost memories, and the sexual awareness of an adolescent boy. It is 1952. Leo, now in his sixties, comes upon an old diary and is drawn back to the hot summer of 1900, when he visited Brandham Hall. He has managed to forget serving during his stay as a messenger between a young woman and her lover -- and to forget also the devastating events that ensued and destroyed his beliefs and his hopes for the future. As his memories begin to unfold and Leo recalls the lost era of Victorian country gentry, he finds he must reinterpret his newly discovered past in terms of his present life. This first annotated edition of Hartley's 1953 classic contains a number of corrections based on the surviving handwritten manuscript.

The Go-Between

Penguin??Books

Classics

STEIN AND DAY.

AUTHOR OF 'THE GO-BETWEEN'. There is to nearly every good writer's imagination a superstitious edge - a sense of fear, a feeling of the essential strangeness of life, a glimpse of the darkened realms of the mind into which reason fails to penetrate. In this fine collection of tales by the author whose best-known work is 'The Go-Between', L.P. Hartley shows himself to be among those writers who have treated the unearthly and the uncanny with the greatest subtlety and skill. His stories, whether of human crimes or of supernatural visitations, shake our reliance on the explicability of an inexplicable universe and sound a note of doom, of irretrievable disaster. With the novelist's sharp eye for detail Hartley vividly portrays the exterior of social life; but he also explores the underlying world of fears and fantasies with a power that is at once compelling and strangely disturbing.

Travelling Grave (Everyman's Classics)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Everyman Ltd

The three books gathered together as Eustace and Hilda explore a brother and sister's lifelong relationship. Hilda, the older child, is both self-sacrificing and domineering, as puritanical as she is gorgeous; Eustace is a gentle, dreamy, pleasure-loving boy: the two siblings could hardly be more different, but they are also deeply devoted. And yet as Eustace and Hilda grow up and seek to go their separate ways in a world of power and position, money and love, their relationship is marked by increasing pain. L. P. Hartley's much-loved novel, the magnum opus of one of twentieth-century England's best writers, is a complex and spellbinding work: a comedy of upper-class manners; a study in the subtlest nuances of feeling; a poignant reckoning with the ironies of character and fate. Above all, it is about two people who cannot live together or apart, about the ties that bind--and break.

Eustace and Hilda : A Trilogy

Faber and Faber

من منشورات مكتبة لبنان ناشرون Librairie du Liban Publishers

York Notes on "The Go-Between" by L.P. Hartley (York Notes)

Reference

Longman

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Penguin

The Hireling (New Portway Reprints)

Genre Fiction

Chivers Press

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley's finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend's beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in her illicit love affair, the aftershocks will be felt for years. The inspiration for the brilliant Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates, The Go-Between is a masterpiece—a richly layered, spellbinding story about past and present, naiveté and knowledge, and the mysteries of the human heart. This volume includes, for the first time ever in North America, Hartley's own introduction to the novel.

The Go-Between (New York Review Books Classics)

Dramas & Plays

NYRB Classics

Alfred.A. Knopf

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