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Back by Henry Green
Category: Fiction
Back is the story of Charley Summers, who is back from the war and a POW camp having lost the woman he loved, Rose, to illness before he left and his leg to fighting. In other words, Charley has very little to come back to, only memories, and on top of that he has been deeply traumatized by his experien ...Show more
CAUGHT by GREEN HENRY
Category: Fiction | Series: The\London Fiction Ser.
During the Blitz, Henry Green served on the London Auxiliary Fire Service, and this experience lies behind Caught, published when the bombing had only recently ended. Like Green, Richard Roe, the hero of this resolutely unheroic book, comes from the upper class. His wife remains at their country estate, ...Show more
Caught by Henry Green
Category: Fiction
During the Blitz, Henry Green served on the London Auxiliary Fire Service, and this experience lies behind Caught, published when the bombing had only recently ended. Like Green, Richard Roe, the hero of this resolutely unheroic book, comes from the upper class. His wife remains at their country estate, ...Show more
Concluding by Henry Green; Eudora Welty
Category: Classics
"Old Mr. Rock lives in a cottage, given to him by the State in gratitude for his scientific work, with his granddaughter Elizabeth. His household includes Daisy the pig, Ted the goose and Alice the cat but there threatens to be an additional member in the person of Sebastian, the schoolteacher whom Eliz ...Show more
Loving by Henry Green
Category: Fiction
Loving is set in the vast hereditary house of the Tennants, an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family, but the story mainly involves their servants. The war has led to a scarcity of experienced staff, and when Eldon the butler dies, Raunce the head footman is assigned his job. The other servants are taken abac ...Show more
Loving, Living, Party Going: WITH Loving AND Party Going by Henry Green
Category: Fiction
Henry Green, whom W. H. Auden called 'the finest living English novelist', is the most neglected writer of the last century and the one most deserving of rediscovery by a new generation. This volume brings together three of Henry Green's intensely original novels. Green explored class distinctions throu ...Show more
NOTHING, DOTING, BLINDNESS by GREEN HENRY
Category: Fiction
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY D. J. TAYLOR These three brilliant novels span Henry Green's career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. Nothing is a tale of the merry-go-round of love, marriage and infidelity, and the ceaseless tussle of innocence versus experience. Doting sets the middle ...Show more
Party Going by Henry Green; Amit Chaudhuri (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A modernist "masterpiece" (The New York Times) that will appeal to fans of Downton Abbey and The Great Gatsby Party Going, published in 1939, is Henry Green's darkly comic valediction to what W. H. Auden famously described as the "low dishonest decade" of the 1930s. London is sunk in an impenetrable fo ...Show more