The Go-between: Penguin Modern Classics
Autor L. P. Hartley Introducere de Douglas Brooks-Daviesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 ian 2004
'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there'
When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall. He becomes drawn deeper and deeper into their dangerous game of deceit and desire, until his role brings him to a shocking and premature revelation. The haunting story of a young boy's awakening into the secrets of the adult world,The Go-Betweenis also an unforgettable evocation of the boundaries of Edwardian society.
Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972) was born in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, and educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. For more than thirty years from 1923 he was an indefatigable fiction reviewer for periodicals including theSpectatorandSaturday Review. His first book,Night Fears(1924) was a collection of short stories; but it was not until the publication ofEustace and Hilda(1947), which won the James Tait Black prize, that Hartley gained widespread recognition as an author. His other novels includeThe Go-Between(1953), which was adapted into an internationally-successful film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates, andThe Hireling(1957), the film version of which won thePalme d'Orat the Cannes Film Festival.
If you enjoyedThe Go-Between, you might like Barry Hines'sA Kestrel for a Knave, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
'Magical and disturbing'
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'On a first reading, it is a beautifully wrought description of a small boy's loss of innocence long ago. But, visited a second time, the knowledge of approaching, unavoidable tragedy makes it far more poignant and painful'
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141187785
ISBN-10: 0141187786
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141187786
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Leslie
Poles
Hartley
was
born
in
1895
and
educated
at
Harrow
and
Balliol
College,
Oxford.
He
is
best
known
forFacial
Justice,
theEustace
and
Hildatrilogy
andThe
Go-Between,
which
won
the
Heinemann
Foundation
Prize
in
1954
and
whose
opening
sentence
has
become
almost
proverbial:
'The
past
is
a
foreign
country:
they
do
things
differently
there.'
He
was
appointed
a
CBE
in
1955,
having
won
the
James
Tait
Black
Memorial
Prize
in
addition
to
the
Heinemann.
He
died
in
1972.
Descriere
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Leo Colston - a man haunted by the events of his past - vividly recalls his unwitting role acting as a go-between for the beautiful upper-class Marian and the tenant-farmer Ted.
Leo Colston - a man haunted by the events of his past - vividly recalls his unwitting role acting as a go-between for the beautiful upper-class Marian and the tenant-farmer Ted.
Recenzii
"Exuding such a sense of summer the pages might be warm to touch, Hartley's coming-of-age tale is set during the heatwave of 1900. It all ends in tears, but not before there have been plenty of cucumber sandwiches on the lawn." --The Observer
“The first time I read it, it cleared a haunting little spot in my memory, sort of like an embassy to my own foreign country…. I don't want to spoil the suspense of a well-made plot, because you must read this, but let's just say it goes really badly and the messenger (shockingly) gets blamed. Or he blames himself anyway. And here the mirror cracks; the boy who leaves Brandham is not the one who came. Indeed the narrator converses with his old self as though he were two people. That was the powerful gonging left by my first read: What, if anything, bundles us through time into a single person?” ߝ Ann Brashares, “All Things Considered”, NPR
“I can't stop recommending to anyone in earshot L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between…. One of the fabled opening lines in modern literature: ‘The past is a foreign country: They do things differently there.’ The NYRB paperback has a superb new introduction by Colm Tóibín, but don't read it until after you've read the book itself.” ߝ Frank Rich, New York Magazine.com
“The first time I read it, it cleared a haunting little spot in my memory, sort of like an embassy to my own foreign country…. I don't want to spoil the suspense of a well-made plot, because you must read this, but let's just say it goes really badly and the messenger (shockingly) gets blamed. Or he blames himself anyway. And here the mirror cracks; the boy who leaves Brandham is not the one who came. Indeed the narrator converses with his old self as though he were two people. That was the powerful gonging left by my first read: What, if anything, bundles us through time into a single person?” ߝ Ann Brashares, “All Things Considered”, NPR
“I can't stop recommending to anyone in earshot L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between…. One of the fabled opening lines in modern literature: ‘The past is a foreign country: They do things differently there.’ The NYRB paperback has a superb new introduction by Colm Tóibín, but don't read it until after you've read the book itself.” ߝ Frank Rich, New York Magazine.com