Surviving
The Uncollected Works of Henry Green
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2002
Summary
Edited by the author’s grandson, the novelist Matthew Yorke, and with an Introduction by John Updike, this book is an excellent selection of Henry Green’s uncollected writings. It includes a number of outstanding stories never previously published, written during the ‘20s and ‘30s (“Bees”, “Saturday”, “Excursion”, and the remarkable “Mood” among them). It contains a highly entertaining account of Green’s service in the London Fire Brigade during the War; a short play written in the 1950s; and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780002726788 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0002726785 |
| Author: | Henry Green |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2002 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 134mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Henry Green
Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. Born in 1905 near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, he was educated at Eton and Oxford and went on to become managing director of an engineering business, writing novels in his spare time. His first novel, Blindness (1926) was written whilst he was still at school and published whilst he was at Oxford. He married in 1929 and had one son, and during the Second World War served in the London Fire Brigade. Between 1926 and 1952 he wrote nine novels: Blindness, Living, Party Going, Caught, Loving, Back, Concluding, Nothing and Doting, and a memoir, Pack My Bag. Henry Green died in December 1973.
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