The Go-Between

Hartley, L.P.

ISBN 10: 0241902088 / ISBN 13: 9780241902080

Published by Hamish Hamilton and The Book Society, 1953

About this Item

this edition issued on first publication by the book society in association with Hamish Hamilton. there is a previous owner's neat signature and date (1953). the binding is excellent. the jacket is somewhere between poor and fair, there are 2 chips of about 2 cm out of the top and bottom of the spine. also other edge tears and the back is marked. it is not price clipped (11s net) it still presents well in cellophane. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Go-Between
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton and The Book Society
• Publication Date: 1953
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241902088
• ISBN 13: 9780241902080
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
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Synopsis

Library sticker on coverThis book has hardback covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy.No dust jacket.

From the Back Cover

"An intelligent, complex and beautifully felt evocation of nascent boyhood sexuality that is also a searching exploration of the nature of memory and myth" --Douglas Brooks-Davies

An invitation to a friend's house changes an adolescent boy's life. Discovering an old diary, Leo, now in his sixties, is drawn back to the hot summer of 1900 and his visit to Brandham Hall. The past comes to life as Leo recalls the events and devastating outcome that destroyed his beliefs and future hopes.

The first annotated edition of L.P. Hartley's great classic, the present text generally follows that of the first edition of 1953 and also includes a number of small but significant corrections based on the surviving holograph of The Go-Between.

Lord David Cecil described L.P. Hartley as "One of the most distinguished of modern novelists; and one of the most original. For the world of his creation is composed of such diverse elements. On the one hand he is a keen and accurate observer of the processes of human thought and feeling; he is also a sharp-eyed chronicler of the social scene. But his picture of both is transformed by the light of a Gothic imagination that reveals itself now in a fanciful reverie, now in the mingled dark and gleam of a mysterious light and a mysterious darkness.... Such is the vision of light presented in[his] novels.