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The Harness Room is a 1971 novel by the British writer L.P. Hartley. 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.
- L. P. Hartley
- 1971
Jan 1, 2001 · A larger world is hinted at, Sandhurst, Oxford, London, Saint-Tropez, but the the story is confined to a manorial house, a garden, and the harness room where Fred Carrington, Colonel Alistair Macready's bisexual chauffeur, has his rooms.
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Jun 6, 2023 · The harness room by Hartley, L. P. (Leslie Poles), 1895-1972. Publication date 1971 Publisher London : Hamish Hamilton Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled
Apr 5, 2022 · THE HARNESS ROOM (1971; 143 pp. with an Introduction by Gregory Woods in the 2022 Valancourt Books edition) was the final novel published during the lifetime of British author L. P. (Leslie Poles) Hartley (1895-1972). THE HARNESS ROOM is an unusual, streamlined novel with four main characters.
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- L P Hartley
Part of a trilogy that offers a penetrating and disturbing psychological study of what Hartley called "sisteritis" in an upper-middle-class family, the three books...
- Leslie Poles Hartley
- Hamilton, 1971
- the University of Michigan
- The Harness Room
Apr 5, 2022 · THE HARNESS ROOM (1971; 143 pp. with an Introduction by Gregory Woods in the 2022 Valancourt Books edition) was the final novel published during the lifetime of British author L. P. (Leslie Poles) Hartley (1895-1972). THE HARNESS ROOM is an unusual, streamlined novel with four main characters.
- L. P. Hartley
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Apr 7, 2022 · L. P. Hartley (1895-1972) is best known for his classics The Go-Between and Eustace and Hilda, as well as his supernatural stories, but he Harness Room (1971), the author's only explicitly gay-themed novel, reveals another side to this important 20th-century English writer.