About this title: WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SEBASTIAN FAULKS. 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 ...
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Edition: Edition Unstated
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Pan Books
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780330252997ISBN:0330252992
Description: Good. As issued No Jacket. Spine curl, corner bumps, pages age toned, handling creases to both covers, and other light to moderate shopwear. 3 novels plus an introduction by John Updike. read more
Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Missing Front Flyleaf Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 1993-02-01
ISBN-13:9780140186918ISBN:0140186913
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780140186918. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780140186918ISBN:0140186913
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Macmillan
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780330252997ISBN:0330252992
Description: Good. Has some tanning to page edges, and a little light shelfwear to cover-otherwise a clean, tight copy. Dispatch within 24hrs from the UK. read more
Edition: First Separate
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780099481478ISBN:0099481472
Description: Collectible; Very Good. VG+ 2005 VINTAGE PB WITH ORIGINAL COVER ARTWORK AND SEBASTIAN FAULKS INTRO. LOVELY EDITION WITH NEW INTRO. SINGLE FAINT SPINE CREASE. Worldwide Shipping IMMEDIATE 1ST CLASS/AIRMAIL DISPATCH. read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780099481478ISBN:0099481472
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 544 pages. (528 pages) brings together three of the author's original novels. he explores class distinctions through the medium of love. this book presents a 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. edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin (, Harmondsworth, England
Date Published: 1978)
ISBN-13:9780140049169ISBN:0140049169
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the John Updike introduction (9 pages). 527 pages. Softcover, very good condition (page margins lightly tanned). ISBN 0140049169. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780140049169ISBN:0140049169
Description: Very Good. 0140049169 Three Novels by Henry Green; edges of covers are mildly worn; interior is clean and unmarked; binding is tight; 528 pages. read more
Description: Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. 1978. Paperback. Used, very good. Very good overall with light to moderate wear. No dust jacket. read more
Edition: Reissue
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin, New York, NY
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780140186918ISBN:0140186913
Description: Good- Pages yellowed. Binding tight. Edgewear with ink chipping. Corners dented and creased. Corners and edges of spine dented and chipped. Covers scuffed and chipped. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780099481478ISBN:0099481472
Description: New. Brings together three of the author's original novels. He explores class distinctions through the medium of love. This book presents a comedy of manners, presenting a party of wealthy travellers stranded by fog in a London railway hotel while throngs... read more
"What unobtrusively wonderful novels! The more I think about them, the more interesting and good I consider them to be; they reward a slow chewing-over. They're also resistant to lazy reading; they don't invite the reader in--they don't encourage interpretation or identification or any of the reader's typical crutches. But on the other hand, the plain prose style, heavy on everyday dialogue, deliberately abstains from warning the reader that she'll be encountering an intricately constructed work of art.
I could say a great deal about Green's treatment of class, gender, sex, failure, propriety, hope, and love, and his wonderful way of showing how Living and Loving and Party Going are all manifested through work (or, signally, the lack thereof)--**spoiler** Loving happens in a butler's hiding from his employers that the housemaid has stolen their peacock eggs to concoct facial masks; Living happens in an old foundry-worker's determination to arrange the marriage of the young girl he wants to be his caretaker in old age; Party Going happens when a group of people who don't like each other, who have nothing in common besides their lack of anything better to do than to form a house party, are locked down in a train station hotel to protect them from thousands of angry, stranded commuters. Wonderful stuff!"
"These novels proved to me that dialogue can be the main event and a source of joy. It probably helped that all the talking came with a British accent. The pacing was glacial and plot virtually nonexistent, but the tiny revelations of character, motivation, and the basic truths of what it means to be human were fascinating. Henry Green may be famous for his dialogue, but his talents for setting the scene and capturing gesture are equally great. One passage from Loving goes down in my notebook of best writing of all time."
"I read this book with James Woods in a literature class my senior year, and his incredible enthusiasm for it makes it hard NOT to love.
That said, rereading it a year or two later, I found out he was right, it's hilarious, and spot-on with class issues, and just a great, fun read. Nabokovian, in that it should be read twice."
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