Product Description

Henry 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 Green's intensely original novels. Green explored class distinctions through the medium of love. Loving 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38298 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

Review
"'The most gifted prose writer of his generation' V. S. Pritchett"

From the Publisher
CENTENARY EDITION - with a new introduction by Sebastian Faulks

From the Back Cover
Living, as an early novel, marks the beginning of Henry Green's 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.

'His novels made more of an impact on me than those of any writer living or dead.' John Updike.

'Green's books remain solid and glittering as gems ... They are not, like so many contemporary novels, mere slices of life but highly successful attempts at making art give meaning to life.' Anthony Burgess