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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 book was published as Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days in 1991 by Stanley Paul. [3] The publishers hired Norman Lumsden, who played J. R. Hartley in the advert, to promote the book as the public face of the author. [2] Despite Russell being credited as the sole author, there have been claims that other people helped him write it. [4]
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.
Eustace and Hilda is a 1947 novel by the British writer L.P. Hartley.It was the third in a trilogy of novels, following The Shrimp and the Anemone (1944) and The Sixth Heaven (1946), which are collectively known as the Eustace and Hilda Trilogy.
The Harness Room is a 1971 novel by the British writer L.P. Hartley. [1] A retired colonel about to remarry decides that his seventeen-year-old son needs toughening up and while away on his honeymoon has his chauffeur, an ex-guardsman to instruct him in boxing and other sports in the harness room.
The Hireling is a 1957 novel by the British writer L.P. Hartley. [1] A widowed aristocrat bonds with the ex-soldier who drives his own car in a chauffeur service. Adaptation
The Shrimp and the Anemone is a 1944 novel by L. P. Hartley. It is the first novel of the Eustace and Hilda Trilogy, the other two being The Sixth Heaven (1946) and Eustace and Hilda . The novel introduces the story of the siblings Eustace and Hilda.
Simonetta Perkins is a 1925 novella by the British writer L. P. Hartley. [1] A young Bostonian woman visiting Venice with her overbearing mother quickly tires of her fellow American tourists and begins to fixate on a handsome gondolier .