- Country homes, Country life, Courtship, Fiction
Narrated as a memoir, this excellent novel tells the story of one summer at the turn of the century when the narrator was a young boy. The boy spends the summer in question as a guest at a country estate where he befriends a local farmer. He soon finds himself acting as an unwitting messenger, carrying letters back and forth between the farmer and the daughter of his host on whom he has a crush.
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Nostalgic, grave, intimate and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- L. P. Hartley
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 296
- Publisher
- Hamilton, Longman, Stein and Day
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140188523
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“THE 8TH of July was a Sunday, and on the following Monday I left West Hatch, the village where we lived near Salisbury, for Brandham Hall.”
Leslie Poles Hartley was born in 1895 in Cambridgeshire, England. His father, who had strong religious views, was the manager of a factory. There was enough money in the family for them to live in a large country house and to send the boy to Harrow (one of the most expensive boys' schools in the country) and later to Oxford University. During the First World War Hartley served in the army, but he left before the end of the war as a result of ill-health. He returned to Oxford, where he continued studying until 1922. He then turned seriously to writing and lived in Italy for much of the rest of his life. He died in 1972. Hartley became known as an important writer of short stories, which appea
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