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Synopsis
Considered by Henry Green to be one of his best novels, "Concluding" tells the story of the strange events events that occur in a single day at a State-run school for girls. Retired scientist Mr. Rock, "an old man in love with his goose," lives in a cottage with his adult granddaughter Elizabeth. Bordering the grounds of the school, the cottage--which the State has given Rock for the duration of his life in gratitude for his scientific contributions--is coveted by the school's two spinsterish governesses, Misses Edge and Baker.
As the story opens, two students are missing. The resultant search for their whereabouts raises numerous fears and questions: have they been harmed? have they left on their own, alone? or have they perhaps been persuaded by the school's only male instructor, Sebastian Birt? how will the governesses keep the news from parents and State authorities until the girls have been found and an acceptable story contrived? will Rock report them for negligence? Meanwhile, as rumors and versions of the girls' disappearance spread through the school, and the governesses attempt to conceal their alarm by preparing for the school's tenth annual Founders Day Ball, the seemingly innocent proceedings take on an air of mystery, intrigue, and impending doom.
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About the Author
Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. He was born in 1905 at the family home of his parents, near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He worked at the family engineering firm for most of his life and pursued a parallel career as a novelist. He married in 1928 and had one son. During WWII he served in the London Fire Brigade. He died in December 1973.
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“Discomfiting social comedy―think Bunuel meets Forster or Beckett meets Mitford.”
- The New Yorker
“Lush enough to get lost in.”
- The Paris Review
“Green's books live on with ever-brightening intensity”
- The Wall Street Journal
“A novel of projections, protractions, long shots, and shadows flying ahead, a slow fall. Uncommonly close to the quick of experience, the sentences are short but they are glancing―the effect can be magically exhilarating, as when the knife thrower does not pierce but surrounds the living target, and it is the reader whose heart is thereby found. The sinister world of Concluding is beautiful, side-lit and colored like an undersea kingdom.”
- Eudora Welty
“Such rarity, such marvelous originality, intuition, sensuality and finish...”
- John Updike
“The characters and story come alive in an almost incredible way, quite beyond anything achieved by conventional methods of writing.”
- Terry Southern
“The most gifted prose writer of his generation.”
- V.S. Pritchett
“The best English novelist.”
- W. H. Auden
“The freshness and force of the work is somewhat uncanny in his gorgeous, enigmatic Concluding.”
- Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books
“Peculiar and beautiful―I love Concluding for the glorious, syntax-straining sentences that flare out of nowhere, and full of wild energies.”
- Lars Iyer, New Statesman
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- PublisherThe Hogarth Press
- Publication date1948
- ISBN 10 0701200774
- ISBN 13 9780701200770
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages254
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Mona Moore (Jacket design) (illustrator). First Edition. A fourth impression of the true first edition, published in 1969. The book was first published in 1948, with further impressions appearing s in 1950, 1954 and this impression in 1969. Dustwrapper designed by Mona Moore, replicating that of the first edition. ***Near fine in brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright having been protected by the dustwrapper. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. No bumps or tears to the cloth. Edges of page block nice and clean without any foxing. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean with no foxing. No creases or tears. No reading lean. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, with the attractive original design by Mona Moore to the front panel. The dustwrapper has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 21s net, with a light shadow from a re-price sticker that has now been removed. The dustwrapper is complete, without any creases, chips or tears - just a few light marks to the back panel, and a very small stain at the bottom corner of the back panel. Dustwrapper bright. ***188mm x130mm. 254 pages. ***'Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke (1905-1973), an English author best remembered for the novels "Party Going", "Living" and "Loving". He published a total of nine novels between 1926 and 1952.' (Wiki) ***'"Concluding" is the story of a summer's day around the year 2000. The setting is a country property, owned by the State. In the manor house is a school for State servants, jeunes filles en fleurs, ruled by two elderly spinsters. In a corner of the estate lives old Mr Rock, a humanist scientist, whom the spinsters regard as a threat to their school; and in between are the woods, full of azaleas and mystery. The mystery is sustained to the end in a haze of lyrical beauty, for nothing is as it seems in the fifteen hour transition from dawn to dusk.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A later fourth impression of "Concluding" by Henry Green, which was originally published soon after World War Two. Of interest to collectors of the work of Henry Green and the Hogarth Press. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 8318
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