This volume brings together three of Henry Green’s original novels.
Loving follows the lives of the servants and masters in an Irish castle during the Second World War. In Living, Green examines the lives of the workers and owners of an iron foundry in Birmingham. Both novels explore class distinctions during the twentieth century.
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.
An Obscure Form of Magic
I’ve just read Party Going (1939), Henry Green’s comic and melancholic masterpiece, for the third or fourth time, and I’m still not sure how to convey its complex flavour. It’s a...
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