Summary
An omnibus edition of three quintessential novels from a unjustly neglected master of early 20th century literature. Features a new and unexpurgated text of Caught, published here for the first time.
Dazzling, daring and full of original insight and wit, Henry Green offers a unique view of a class-ridden Britain enduring both war and its aftermath. In the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Blitz, so brilliantly evoked in Caught, gossip spreads like wildfire and the lives …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784871031 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784871036 |
| Author: | Henry Green |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 458g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 130mm x 40mm |
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Critics Review
The greatest of the English modernists after [DH] Lawrence and Virginia Woolf
The greatest of the English modernists after [DH] Lawrence and Virginia Woolf – James Wood
Henry Green’s novels are among the most dazzling, inventive and individual of the last century * Daily Telegraph *
The finest living English novelist – W.H. Auden
The most gifted prose writer of his generation – V.S. Pritchett
His novels made more of a stylistic impact on me than those of any writer, living or dead – John Updike
These novels offer a glimpse of class in wartime and postwar Britain with wit and style thrown into the mix. – Fiona Wilson * The Times *
About The Author
Henry Green
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 1973.
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