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Leslie Poles Hartley CBE (30 December 1895 – 13 December 1972) was an English novelist and short story writer. Although his first fiction was published in 1924, his best-known works are the Eustace and Hilda trilogy (1944–1947) and The Go-Between (1953). The latter was made into a film in 1971, as was his 1957 novel The Hireling in 1973 .
L.P. Hartley (born December 30, 1895, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England—died December 13, 1972, London) was an English novelist, short-story writer, and critic whose works fuse a subtle observation of manners traditional to the English novel with an interest in the psychological nuance.
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L.P. Hartley has 132 books on Goodreads with 74392 ratings. L.P. Hartley’s most popular book is The Go-Between.
Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972) was born in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, and educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. For more than thirty years from 1923 he was an indefatigable fiction reviewer for periodicals including the Spectator and Saturday Review.
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The Go-Between is a novel by L. P. Hartley published in 1953. His best-known work, it has been adapted several times for stage and screen. The book gives a critical view of society at the end of the Victorian era through the eyes of a naïve schoolboy outsider.
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Dec 15, 2023 · Learn about the life and works of L. P. Hartley, a British novelist and essayist who wrote The Go-Between, Eustace and Hilda, and other novels. Find related items and reference entries on Oxford Reference.
12,285 ratings1,147 reviews. L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with an introduction and notes by Douglas Brooks-Davies in Penguin Modern Classics. 'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there'.
