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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 latter was made into a film in 1971, as was his 1957 novel The Hireling in 1973 .
L.P. Hartley (born December 30, 1895, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England—died December 13, 1972, London) was an English novelist, short-story writer, and critic whose works fuse a subtle observation of manners traditional to the English novel with an interest in the psychological nuance.
Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972) was born in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, and educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. For more than thirty years from 1923 he was an indefatigable fiction reviewer for periodicals including the Spectator and Saturday Review.
English novelist and short-story writer. Examine the life, times, and work of L. P. Hartley through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
L.P. Hartley has 132 books on Goodreads with 74505 ratings. L.P. Hartley’s most popular book is The Go-Between.
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. Synopsis.
L. P. Hartley published, in addition to eighteen novels, six collections of short stories: Night Fears (1924), The Killing Bottle (1932), The Traveling Grave (1948), The White Wand (1954), Two...
Dec 15, 2023 · L. P. Hartley. (1895—1972) novelist and essayist. Quick Reference. (1895–1972), novelist, began his literary career as a writer of short stories and as a fiction reviewer; his stories were published as Night Fears (1924) and The Killing Bottle (1932).
L. P. Hartley's much-loved novel, the magnum opus of one of twentieth-century England's best writers, is a complex and spellbinding a comedy of upper-class manners; a study in the subtlest nuances of feeling; a poignant reckoning with the ironies of character and fate.
Novelist, short-story writer, and literary critic, L. P. Hartley won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1947 for Eustace and Hilda. Part of a trilogy that offers a...
