Loving, Living, Party Going

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SEBASTIAN FAULKSHenry 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. Loving explored class distinctions through the medium of love and brilliantly contrasts the lives of servants and masters in an Irish castle during World War Two, Living of workers and owners in a Birmingham iron foundry. Party Going is a brilliant comedy of manners, presenting a party of wealthy travellers stranded by fog in a London railway hotel while throngs of workers await trains in the station below.

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Weight 0.373 kg
Dimensions 3.2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

544

Publisher

Year Published

2005-10-6

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099481472

About The Author

Henry Green (Author) Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. Born in 1905 near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, he was educated at Eton and Oxford and went on to become managing director of an engineering business, writing novels in his spare time. His first novel, Blindness (1926) was written whilst he was still at school and published whilst he was at Oxford. He married in 1929 and had one son, and during the Second World War served in the London Fire Brigade. Between 1926 and 1952 he wrote nine novels, Blindness, Living, Party Going, Caught, Loving, Back, Concluding, Nothing and Doting, and a memoir, Pack My Bag. Henry Green died in December 1973Sebastian Faulks (Introducer) Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London.

Green paints an unforgettable portrait of a doomed, amoral world whose characters, trapped in the fog, are somehow waltzing blithely towards oblivion…cinematic in its intensity

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Heartbreaking, funny and written with such luminous prose – he's the most brilliant, and neglected, of English writers

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