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L. P. Hartley (1895–1972)

Auteur de The Go-between, by L. P. Hartley

41+ oeuvres 3,769 utilisateurs 64 critiques 13 Favoris

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Novelist, short-story writer, and literary critic, L. P. Hartley won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1947 for Eustace and Hilda. Part of a trilogy that offers a penetrating and disturbing psychological study of what Hartley called "sisteritis" in an upper-middle-class family, the three books afficher plus were described by the London Times as "unique in modern writing...diverting and disturbing. Beneath a surface "almost overcivilized' the reviewer found "a hollow of horror."' One of Hartley's special interests is Henry James, with whom he has been compared. In The Tragic Comedians, James Hall devotes a chapter to Hartley, who is respected but not popular in Britain, read by few in America, but praised by discerning critics in both countries: "Along with Green and Powell, Hartley has changed the direction of the comic novel, raising even more seriously than they the question of whether it remains comic at all.... His freshness consists at first in simply changing the patterns of the naturalist novel from social insights to emotional ones; yet in doing so he departs from both the older solid way of conceiving character and the more recent fluid way of conceiving consciousness." David Cecil called The Go-Between (1953) "impressive," and wrote: "Hartley is for me the first of living novelists in certain important respects; beauty of style, lyrical quality of feeling and, above all, the power and originality of his imagination, which wonderfully mingles ironic comedy, whimsical fancy and a mysterious Hawthorne-like poetry." The Novelist's Responsibility is a collection of essays and letters. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

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Œuvres de L. P. Hartley

The Go-between, by L. P. Hartley (1953) 2,315 exemplaires
Eustace and Hilda: A Trilogy (1958) 293 exemplaires
The Hireling (1957) 231 exemplaires
The Shrimp and the Anemone (1945) 175 exemplaires
Facial Justice (1960) 143 exemplaires
A Perfect Woman (1955) 58 exemplaires
The Sixth Heaven (1946) 52 exemplaires
Simonetta Perkins (1925) 51 exemplaires
Eustace and Hilda (1947) 47 exemplaires
The Boat (1950) 40 exemplaires
The Brickfield (1964) 36 exemplaires
The Harness Room (1971) 25 exemplaires
My Fellow Devils (1959) 19 exemplaires
The Betrayal (1966) 18 exemplaires
My Sisters' Keeper (1970) 12 exemplaires
Modern Short Stories 2: 1940-1980 (1982) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
Two for the river (1961) 9 exemplaires
The Will and the Way (1973) 7 exemplaires
The White Wand and Other Stories (1954) 7 exemplaires
Poor Clare (1968) 7 exemplaires
The Love-Adept (1969) 6 exemplaires
The Collections (1972) 6 exemplaires
W.S. 3 exemplaires
Feet Foremost (2012) 2 exemplaires
Eustache et Hilda (3) 2 exemplaires
Oxford Poetry 1920 (1920) — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
The cat : an essay (1986) 2 exemplaires
The Island 1 exemplaire
La ‰bara ambulante (1989) 1 exemplaire
Monkshood Manor 1 exemplaire

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The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (1986) — Contributeur — 542 exemplaires
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature (1983) — Contributeur — 499 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000) — Contributeur — 295 exemplaires
Murder on the menu (1984) — Contributeur — 194 exemplaires
The Pan Book of Horror Stories (1959) — Contributeur — 156 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984) — Contributeur — 141 exemplaires
Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season (2020) — Contributeur — 70 exemplaires
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996) — Contributeur — 70 exemplaires
Great Ghost Stories (1936) — Contributeur — 67 exemplaires
Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories (1999) — Contributeur — 64 exemplaires
The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1964) — Contributeur — 61 exemplaires
65 Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979) — Contributeur — 59 exemplaires
The Third Ghost Book (1955) — Introduction; Contributeur — 56 exemplaires
Ghosts of Christmas Past (2017) — Contributeur — 55 exemplaires
Chillers for Christmas (1989) — Contributeur — 49 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936) — Contributeur — 47 exemplaires
The Second Ghost Book (1952) — Contributeur — 46 exemplaires
Ghosts for Christmas (1988) — Contributeur — 45 exemplaires
The Third Omnibus of Crime (1935) — Contributeur — 44 exemplaires
Realms of Darkness (1985) — Contributeur — 44 exemplaires
65 Great Murder Mysteries (1983) — Contributeur — 41 exemplaires
Tales from the Dead of Night (2013) — Contributeur — 40 exemplaires
The Television Late-night Horror Omnibus (1993) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1966) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
The Ghost Book: Sixteen Stories of the Uncanny (1926) — Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
The Go-Between [1971 film] (2010) — Original book — 31 exemplaires
The Old School: Essays by Divers Hands (1934) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires
Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights (2022) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires
Night Shadows: Twentieth-Century Stories of the Uncanny (2001) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories, Volume Three (2018) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
Night chills : stories of suspense and horror (1975) — Contributeur — 22 exemplaires
The Tenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1974) — Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
Monster Festival: Classic Tales of the Macabre (1965) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
Paha vieras (1996) 15 exemplaires
Fifty Masterpieces of Mystery (1937) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
Famous Tales of the Fantastic (1965) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
Uncanny Tales 2 (1974) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
The Black Cap: New Stories of Murder and Mystery (1928) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
The Fourteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1978) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
The Country Child (1992) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Beyond Midnight (1976) — Auteur — 10 exemplaires
Cat Encounters: A Cat-Lover's Anthology (1979) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Terrors, Torments, and Traumas: An Anthology (1978) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
Shudders (1929) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Armchair Horror Collection (1994) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
When Churchyards Yawn (1963) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Fourteen stories from one plot, based on "Mr. Fothergill's plot" (1932) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Ghosts in Country Houses (1981) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Spøgelseshistorier fra hele verden — Contributeur, quelques éditions3 exemplaires
The Best British Short Stories of 1933 — Contributeur, quelques éditions2 exemplaires
Stories of the Macabre (1976) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The New Decameron. Sixth volume (1929) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

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I had watched the movie first. Then I got the book. I went into it with a little hesitation since I thought of it as very plot-driven story and therefore "spoiled" by having watched the movie. Boy was I wrong. One thing that comes through much better in the book is the emotional development of the boy even though it's being told from his adult self years later. All of his actions were supported by credible motivations, and there was no feeling that the author put something in "just to make it interesting." And as the plot develops, the boy's thinking gets more complex. For some people the language will be a challenge, but I found I fell right into it and it added a lot to the feeling of distance with the past, as is the boy's past really were a foreign country.… (plus d'informations)
 
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Peterlemat | 37 autres critiques | Jun 26, 2023 |
L.P. Hartley lived from 1895 to 1972 and wrote quite a number of books, but this one, published near the end of his life, in 1971, is his only openly gay novel. Gregory Woods, in his foreword to this edition, writes: “The fact that E.M. Forster’s novel Maurice was soon to be published at last, though posthumously, may have been a spur to Hartley.”

This is the story of an adolescent, Fergus, who is left behind at his father’s grand house when the latter, a widower, remarries and goes on honeymoon. Fergus’ father, colonel Macready thinks his son is too soft, too bookish. Before he leaves with his new wife, he asks his manly chauffeur, Fred Carrington, to make more of a “man” of Fergus by training him physically. Little does colonel Macready know that both Fred and Fergus are gay.

What unfolds is a tender, sensual, and tragic story that deserves to be wider known. This 2022 edition is only the second time that this forgotten novel has been published.
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leoslittlebooklife | 1 autre critique | Apr 19, 2023 |
It took me a while to get used to Hartley's elevated language, but once I did, the story swept me away. I kept being reminded of other stories while reading this one: shades of THE GREAT GATSBY, GREAT EXPECTATIONS, ATONEMENT... Yet, this book told its own story with its own tragedy and beauty. One of the best fall from innocence and bildungsroman novels I have ever read.
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crabbyabbe | 37 autres critiques | Nov 6, 2022 |
Outstanding little collection of macabre stories that should be generally rated higher than it is. Hartley is a highly accomplished writer who wrote the classic non-supernatural [b:The Go-Between|258079|The Go-Between|L.P. Hartley|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320480023s/258079.jpg|1553524] as well as many other novels and stories outside the outr�� genres. Every story in this book is a classic tale and Hartley's macabre stories deserve to be better known and anthologized. My favorite is "A Visitor from Down Under" with it's punning title (the protagonist has just returned from Australia). Hartley mixes a wry gallows humor in with the truly horrifying, without the humor blunting the edge of the tale.

I read a lot of stories and after decades I can often not remember the details of a particular story, but I can remember the Travelling Grave, Feet Foremost, and Three or Four, for Dinner like I read them yesterday. I like Hartley so much I invested in the expensive Tartarus Press collection despite owning this Arkham House collection.
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Gumbywan | 1 autre critique | Jun 24, 2022 |

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