Book description
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.
Loving explored class distinctions through the medium of love
and 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 wealthy travellers stranded by fog
in a London railway hotel while throngs of workers await trains in the
station below.
Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. He was born in
1905 at the family home of his parents, near Tewkesbury in
Gloucestershire, England, and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He worked
at the family engineering firm for most of his life and pursued a
parallel career as a novelist. He married in 1929 and had one son.
During WWII he served for the duration in the London Fire Brigade. He
died in December 1973.
