HENRY GREEN

Henry Green is a neglected master of 20th century literature who is ripe for rediscovery. These three brilliant novels span Greens career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. Nothing is a tale of the merry-go-round of love, marriage and infidelity amid the ceaseless intergenerational tussle of innocence versus experience. Doting sets the middle-aged male infatuation with pretty girls against the comfortable affection of wives/old friends. In Blindness, a young man is blinded in a senseless accident but thereafter discovers new imaginative powers.

Loving explored class distinctions through the medium of love and brilliantly contrasts the lives of servants and masters in an Irish castle during World War Two, Living of workers and owners in a Bi

El secreto mejor guardado de la literatura inglesa que ha cautivado a autores como Martin Amis o John Updike .Con esta obra, traducida por primera vez al castellano, Lumen da a conocer a uno de los escritores mas exquisitos e ironicos de la literatura inglesa. Viajando en grupo es la segunda novela de Henry Green y una de sus mas celebradas. Durante una tediosa espera en la estacion Victoria de Londres, un grupo de ocho amigos orquestan una disparatada comedia de enredo. Reticencias, insinuaciones y malos entendidos premeditados marcan el celoso ritmo de esta elegante narracion que retrata la estupidez humana.

Satirizing the tedium of upper-middle-class life in post-war London, this novel depicts a world in which substance is far less important to anyone than appearance. The question asked throughout the text concerns the differences between doting and loving.

When the war breaks out, Rose, a well-to-do widower with a young son, Christopher, volunteers for the Auxiliary Fire Service in London, and is trained under a professional fire officer, Pye. The two men discover that a quite different link already exists between them: it was Pyes strange, disturbed sister who once upon a time abducted Christopher and kept him in her room until Pye rescued the terrified child. In the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Blitz the relationship between the two men develops as each of them grapples with his own troubled emotional attachments, the one to his dead wife, the other to his unhappy sister. Inevitably matters come to a head when history shows signs of repeating itself. The subtle handling of relationships, the brilliance of the dialogue and description - including one of the best accounts ever written of London under the Blitz - established Caught as one of Henry Greens most powerful novels.

Dazzling, daring and full of original insight and wit, Henry Green offers a unique view of a class-ridden Britain enduring both war and its aftermath. In the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Blitz, so brilliantly evoked in Caught, gossip spreads like wildfire and the lives of two men are torn apart. In Back, Charley, an amputee, returns from a prison camp to his village and the grave of the woman he loved. Concluding was Greens own favourite of his novels and tells the story of a summers day and a schoolgirls disappearance.The text of Caught used in this edition is based on Greens original manuscript, which was censored by the publisher on first publication, but can be read now for the first time in unexpurgated form.

One of his most admired works, LOVING describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe; invading one anothers provinces of authority to create an anarchic environment of self-seeking behaviour, pilfering, gossip and love.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SEBASTIAN FAULKSHenry Green, whom W. H. Auden called the finest living English novelist, is the most neglected writer of the last century and the one most deserving of rediscovery by a new generation. This volume brings together three of Henry Greens intensely original novels. Loving explored class distinctions through the medium of love and brilliantly contrasts the lives of servants and masters in an Irish castle during World War Two, Living of workers and owners in a Birmingham iron foundry. Party Going is a brilliant comedy of manners, presenting a party of wealthy travellers stranded by fog in a London railway hotel while throngs of workers await trains in the station below.

Edited by the authors grandson, the novelist Matthew Yorke, and with an Introduction by John Updike, this book is an excellent selection of Henry Greens uncollected writings. It includes a number of outstanding stories never previously published, written during the 20s and 30s ("Bees", "Saturday", "Excursion", and the remarkable "Mood" among them). It contains a highly entertaining account of Greens service in the London Fire Brigade during the War; a short play written in the 1950s; and a selection of his journalism, including revelatory articles about the craft of writing, a marvellous evocation of Venice, a description of falling in love, reviews which illuminate his literary enthusiasm and the entertaining interview with Terry Southern for the Paris Review. It is rounded off with a biographical memoir by Greens son, Sebastian Yorke. Fascinating and invaluable as an introduction to Green, Surviving casts new light on his work and illustrates the many facets of this exceptional writer, one of the two most important English novelists of his time.

A group of rich, spoiled and idle young people heading off on a winter holiday are stranded at a railway station when their train is delayed by thick, enclosing fog. PARTY GOING describes their four-hour wait in a London railway hotel where they shelter from the grim weather and the throngs of workers on the platform below.

Back is, according to Jeremy Treglown in his introduction, "Henry Greens most extended attempt to plumb the world of the hunted - and haunted". First published in 1946, it has indeed remained one of Greens most haunting, elegiac novels and one of the most enduring to have focused on the individual human tragedy of the war.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY D. J. TAYLORThese three brilliant novels span Henry Greens career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. Nothing is a tale of the merry-go-round of love, marriage and infidelity, and the ceaseless tussle of innocence versus experience. Doting sets the middle-aged male infatuation for pretty girls against the comfortable affection of wives and old friends, delving into the complications of burgeoning affairs and boring marriages. In Blindness, Greens first novel, a young man is blinded in a senseless accident but thereafter discovers new imaginative powers.

LIVING, as an early novel, marks the beginning of Henry Greens career as a writer who made his name by exploring class distinctions through the medium of love. Set in an iron foundry in Birmingham, LIVING grittily and entertainingly contrasts the lives of the workers and the owners

Henry Green wrote his autobiography in 1940, aged only thirty-five, because he was convinced he wouldnt survive the war. The result is a delightfully wayward and incisive portrait of English society and of the man himself. From reminiscences of a childhood spent among the gentry, to searing descriptions of Eton and Oxford, to reflections on the authors first experiments with prose and with sex, all Greens unique talents as a writer are on offer here, at their most dazzling and accessible.

Blindness is Henry Greens first novel. Begun when the author was still at school, it tells the story of a clever and artistic boy who, blinded in a senseless accident, turns to writing with powers extraordinarily heightened by his affliction. With a total lack of sentimentality Henry Green explores the youths adaptation to his changed and darkened life.Blindness has been much referred to and much discussed by Greens admirers, but for many years has been impossible to obtain. Its reissue coincides with the increasing recognition of Greens stature as a major modern English novelist.

Old Mr Rock, a widower, lives in a cottage with his granddaughter Elizabeth; his household includes Daisy the pig, Ted the goose and Alice the cat, but an additional member threatens in the person of Sebastian Birt, the schoolteacher whom Elizabeth wants to marry. Birt teaches in the state institution for girls run by two authoritarian spinsters, the inseparable Misses Edge and Baker.One sunny summers morning, the morning of the Founders Day Ball, as Mr Rock goes up to the school to fetch his pig-swill for Daisy, it is discovered that two of the girls have gone missing in the night. As he pursues the unfolding events of this crowded day and eavesdrops on the conversations up at the school and down at the cottage, Henry Green subtly teases out all the hidden ambitions and lusts, the suspicions and jealousies that are rife just beneath the placid surface of the institution. With an unmatched ear for dialogue and an absolute mastery in the depiction of character, he imbues this apparently routine school day with a powerful charge of drama and superb comic effect.