2. Leslie Poles Hartley was a British writer, known for novels and short
stories. His best-known work is The Go-Between (1953), which was
made into a 1970 film, directed by Joseph Losey with a star cast, in
an adaptation by Harold Pinter. The book's opening sentence, "The
past is a foreign country: they do things differently there", has
become almost proverbial.
Hartley was born in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, where he lived with
his parents, Bessie and Harry and his two sisters, Enid and Annie
Norah. He then moved to an estate near Peterborough with his
family. He was educated in Cliftonville, Thanet, then briefly at
Clifton College, where he first met Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin, and
at Harrow School.
3. The first volume of a trilogy, it was followed by The Sixth Heaven
(1946) and Eustace and Hilda (1947), which won the James Tait Black
Memorial Prize, and is also the title by which the whole work is
generally known. It was recognized immediately as a major
contribution to contemporary English fiction. His other novels include
The Boat (1949) and The Go-Between (1953), which was awarded the
Heinemann Foundation Prize of the Royal Society of Literature in
1954 and was later made into an internationally successful film, while
the film version of The Hireling won the principal award at the 1973
Cannes festival. In 1967 he published The Novelist's Responsibility, a
collection of critical essays. His later books include My Sister's
Keeper (1970), Mrs Carteret Receives (1971) and The Harness Room
(1971). He was awarded the CBE in the New Year's Honours List in
1956.
4. GIF 1915 he went up to Balliol College, Oxford,
to read modern history. There he befriended
Aldous Huxley. In 1916 he joined the British
Army. He was commissioned as an officer but for
health reasons never left the United Kingdom.
Invalided out, he returned to Oxford in 1919,
where he gathered a number of literary friends,
including Lord David Cecil.
His work was published in Oxford Poetry in 1920
and 1922. He edited Oxford Outlook, with Gerald
Howard and A. B. B. Valentine in 1920, and in
1921 with Basil Murray and M. C. Hollis also. At
this time he was introduced by Huxley to Lady
Ottoline Morrell. Kitchin, who was at Oxford
also, introduced him to the Asquiths; Cynthia
Asquith became a lifelong friend. Despite being
named after Leslie Stephen, Hartley always
belonged to the Asquith milieu, and was rebuffed
by the Bloomsbury group.
5. List of works
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Night Fears (1924), short stories
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Simonetta Perkins (1925)
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The Killing Bottle (1932), short stories
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The Shrimp and the Anemone (1944), Eustace and Hilda
Trilogy I
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The West Window (1945)
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The Sixth Heaven (1946), Eustace and Hilda Trilogy II
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Eustace and Hilda (1947), Eustace and Hilda Trilogy III
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The Travelling Grave and Other Stories (1948), short stories
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The Boat (1949)
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My Fellow Devils (1951)
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The Go-Between (1953)
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The White Wand and Other Stories (1954), short stories
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A Perfect Woman (1955)
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The Hireling (1957)
6. The Go-Between is a novel by L.
P. Hartley published in 1953.
The novel begins with the line
"The past is a foreign country:
they do things differently
there."
Untill the success of The
Go-Between he gained little
recognition. He was,
however, awarded the 1947
James Tait Black Memorial
Prize for Eustace and Hilda
and in 1956 he was awarded
the CBE.
7. The Go-Between is a novel by L.
P. Hartley published in 1953.
The novel begins with the line
"The past is a foreign country:
they do things differently
there."
Untill the success of The
Go-Between he gained little
recognition. He was,
however, awarded the 1947
James Tait Black Memorial
Prize for Eustace and Hilda
and in 1956 he was awarded
the CBE.
