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  • The Go-Between

    by L.P. Hartley ...
    “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley’s finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend’s beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in her illicit love affair, the aftershocks will be felt for years. The inspiration for the brilliant ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Eustace and Hilda

    by L.P. Hartley ...
    This three novel collection first published in 1944 explores a brother and sister’s coming of age and changing relationship in the English countryside and VeniceThe three books gathered together as Eustace and Hilda explore a brother and sister’s lifelong relationship. Hilda, the older child, is both self-sacrificing and domineering, as puritanical as she is gorgeous; Eustace is a gentle, dreamy, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Perfect Woman

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    Chartered accountant Harold Eastwood, conventionally minded, chances to meet Alec Goodrich on the train, travelling first-class with a third-class ticket.Alec is a best-selling novelist. He soon finds Harold's knowledge of income tax allowances useful and when Alec pays a visit to the accountant his wife, Isabel, who yearns for culture and literature, quickly takes up the fantasy to be his ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Travelling Grave and Other Stories

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    Though best known for his classic novel of Edwardian childhood The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley was also a master of supernatural and macabre fiction, the best of which is collected in The Travelling Grave and Other Stories.This volume demonstrates Hartley’s versatility, ranging from traditional ghost stories like ‘Feet Foremost’ and ‘The Cotillon’ to the wonderfully black humour of the horror ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Facial Justice

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    World War III left the world in ruins, but now a new society has sprung up from the ashes, ruled by an unseen dictator who believes a system of strict equality is the best way to prevent future strife. Too much beauty, intelligence, or personality is severely frowned upon. Those who run afoul of the Dictator are punished, sometimes with death and sometimes with a more mysterious and terrible fate, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Betrayal

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    In The Betrayal, the sequel to The Brickfield, Richard Mardick, now an ageing novelist, is forced by circumstances to look back on the days of his boyhood and confesses to Denys Aspin, his young secretary and biographer-to-be, how Lucy's death has forever marred his life and distorted his inner peace.The consequences of this rash disclosure range from threats and blackmail to the entirely ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Boat

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    Timothy Casson, a bachelor writer, is forced to return from a contented life in Venice to an English village. Taking a house by the river where he can pursue his passion for rowing, he has to do battle with the locals to overcome his isolation and feelings of incompleteness. This most complex of Hartley's novels examines the multiple layers of Casson's relationships with servants, local society ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Harness Room

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    Colonel Macready thinks his bookish seventeen-year-old son Fergus is too soft, so he enlists the help of his manly chauffeur, Fred Carrington, to help whip the boy into shape. But the sweaty afternoons in the harness room above the garage take a turn the Colonel hadn’t foreseen when Fergus and Fred’s boxing sessions lead first to friendship, and then to something more . . .L. P. Hartley (1895-1972 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Brickfield

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    A lonely boy living on his uncle's farm in the Lincolnshire Fens, Richard Mardick's solitary existence is interrupted by a chance meeting, and idyllic love affair, with Lucy. A disused brickfield is the scene of their clandestine meetings, and it is there that Richard finds her drowned in a muddy pool.Forced by circumstances to look back on these days, Richard finds himself recounting this episode ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Hireling

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    Overcome with grief at her husband's death, Lady Franklin, an eligible young widow, unburdens herself to Leadbitter - a gallant, hard-bitten ex-soldier who has invested his savings in the car he drives for hire - as he takes her on a series of journeys. He in turn beguiles her with stories of his non-existent wife and children, drawing her out of her self-absorption and weaving a dream-life with ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • My Fellow Devils

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    Margaret Pennefather is essentially a good person - too good, perhaps, for her own good. Her rash and hasty marriage to film star Colum McInnes, and his very different set of moral values, leads gradually and relentlessly to the utter destruction of their love and their marriage. Although she is only a nominal Protestant and he a very lax Roman Catholic, Margaret cannot escape the religious ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The L.P. Hartley Signature Classics. Illustrated

    My Fellow Devils, The Hireling, The Boat, A Perfect Woman

    by L.P. Hartley ...
    Renowned for his keen psychological insight and elegant prose, Hartley explores themes of love, morality, social class, and the complexity of human relationships. From the haunting exploration of temptation in My Fellow Devils to the poignant tale of emotional redemption in The Hireling, each story reveals Hartley’s ability to capture the nuances of human behavior and the moral dilemmas of his ... Read more

    $0.99 USD