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A Perfect Woman by L. P. Hartley
Category: Fiction
Chartered accountant Harold Eastwood, conventionally minded, chances to meet Alec Goodrich on the train, travelling first-class with a third-class ticket. Alec is a best-selling novelist. He soon finds Harold's knowledge of income tax allowances useful and when Alec pays a visit to the accountant his wi ...Show more
Eustace and Hilda by L. P. Hartley
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials
'A masterpiece' Anita Brookner'A very beautiful novel' Nick Hornby'Includes some of the most perfect sentences in English' GuardianAt the turn of the twentieth century, two children play on an English beach. Eustace, a gentle, dreamy, boy with a weak heart, relies on his older sister Hilda. As young adu ...Show more
Facial Justice by L. P. Hartley
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'You'll never be happy until you can think and feel and look like other people...' Jael 97 is an Alpha. Deemed over-privileged for her beauty, she is compelled to report to the Ministry of Facial Justice, where her face will be reconstructed. For Jael lives in the New State, created out of the devastati ...Show more
My Fellow Devils by L. P. Hartley
Category: Fiction
Margaret Pennefather is essentially a good person - too good, perhaps, for her own good. Her rash and hasty marriage to film star Colum McInnes, and his very different set of moral values, leads gradually and relentlessly to the utter destruction of their love and their marriage. Although she is only a ...Show more
Penguin Readers Level 4: "The Go-Between" by L.P. Hartley
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) It is the summer of 1900 and Leo is staying with his friend Marcus. Leo likes Marcus's beautiful older sister very much. To make her happy, he becomes a secret messenger for her and a local farmer. But then he realises what their messages are about, an ...Show more
The Betrayal by L. P. Hartley
Category: Fiction
In The Betrayal, the sequel to The Brickfield, Richard Mardick, now an ageing novelist, is forced by circumstances to look back on the days of his boyhood and confesses to Denys Aspin, his young secretary and biographer-to-be, how Lucy's death has forever marred his life and distorted his inner peace. T ...Show more
The Boat by L. P. Hartley
Category: Fiction
Timothy Casson, a bachelor writer, is forced to return from a contented life in Venice to an English village. Taking a house by the river where he can pursue his passion for rowing, he has to do battle with the locals to overcome his isolation and feelings of incompleteness. This most complex of Hartle ...Show more
The Brickfield by L.P. Hartley
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Voices
Elderly and infirm novelist Richard Mardick dramatically dictates his memoirs to his young protege Denys Aspin, in order that his life story may be preserved for posterity. Faced with a mysterious and undefined illness, the young Richard, we learn, was sent to recuperate and work on his uncle's farm, ca ...Show more
The Brickfield by L. P. Hartley
Category: Fiction
A lonely boy living on his uncle's farm in the Lincolnshire Fens, Richard Mardick's solitary existence is interrupted by a chance meeting, and idyllic love affair, with Lucy. A disused brickfield is the scene of their clandestine meetings, and it is there that Richard finds her drowned in a muddy pool. ...Show more
The Go-Between by L P Hartley
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
"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 h ...Show more
The Go-Between (Macmillan Collector's Library) by L. P. Hartley
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
L. P. Hartley's enduring coming of age story about a forbidden love and its terrible consequences, now beautifully packaged with an afterword by publisher Anna South.An invitation for young Leo to join a school friend at Brandham Hall - a world of privilege far removed from his own - for the scorchingly ...Show more