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GebondenEngels9780198734758
4-8-2016
Henry Green: Class, Style, and the Everyday offers a critical prism through which Green's fiction--from his earliest published short stories, as an Eton schoolboy, through to his last dialogic novels of the 1950s--can be seen as a coherent, subtle, and humorous critique of the tension between class, style, and realism in the first half of the twentieth century. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099481485
6-11-2008
TAYLORThese three brilliant novels span Henry Green's career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. In Blindness, Green's first novel, a young man is blinded in a senseless accident but thereafter discovers new imaginative powers. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099285090
29-3-2001
One of his most admired works, LOVING describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099285076
7-9-2000
Henry Green wrote his autobiography in 1940, aged only thirty-five, because he was convinced he wouldn't survive the war. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099481478
6-10-2005
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. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780002726788
7-2-1994
The uncollected writings of the author of "Living", "Loving", "Caught", "Nothing" and "Blindness". Meer
PaperbackEngels9780002711456
7-12-1992
This humorous novel is composed almost entirely of conversations. Some take place in the dining-room of a London hotel overlooking a park, some in a pub, some in the flat of the main character - a middle-aged woman, clever, charming and beautiful. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780002711845
5-8-1991
A novel about working-class factory life in Birmingham. Lily Gates keeps house for her widowed father, her timid suitor, Jim, and the patriarch, Craighan, whose house it is. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781860460272
16-1-1997
Birt teaches in the state institution for girls run by two authoritarian spinsters, the inseparable Misses Edge and Baker. One sunny summer's morning, the morning of the Founders' Day Ball, as Mr Rock goes up to the school to fetch his pig-swill for Daisy, it is discovered that two of the girls have gone missing in the night. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781860468315
5-4-2001
When the war breaks out, Rose, a well-to-do widower with a young son, Christopher, volunteers for the Auxiliary Fire Service in London, and is trained under a professional fire officer, Pye. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781846555626
5-4-2011
Satirizing the tedium of upper-middle-class life in post-war London, this novel depicts a world in which substance is far less important to anyone than appearance. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781860463693
19-2-1998
Back is, according to Jeremy Treglown in his introduction, "Henry Green's most extended attempt to plumb the world of the hunted - and haunted". First published in 1946, it has indeed remained one of Green's most haunting, elegiac novels and one of the most enduring to have focused on the individual human tragedy of the war. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521591317
2-3-2006
This first comprehensive biography of Henry I, the youngest son of William the Conqueror and an elusive figure for historians, offers a rich and compelling account of his tumultuous life and reign. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521744522
14-5-2009
This first comprehensive biography of Henry I, the youngest son of William the Conqueror and an elusive figure for historians, offers a rich and compelling account of his tumultuous life and reign. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521375863
21-9-1989
The is a full-length analysis of the machinery and men of government under Henry I, which looks in much greater detail than is possible for other contemporary states at the way government worked and at the careers of royal servants. Meer