L p hartley biography
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Below is a summary of L.P. Hartley's biography, and an utforskning of The Go-Between and of some of Hartley's short stories. There is also an examination of L.P. Hartley's beliefs and how these manifest in his work. You will additionally find a selection of quotes from Hartley's work.
L.P. Hartley: bio
L.P Hartley was born Leslie Poles Hartley on 30 December 1895 in Cambridgeshire. His father was a solicitor and then moved on to own a successful brickworks. The family lived a comfortable life because of this. The Hartley family moved when Hartley was young. He spent much of his youth in Peterborough.
Hartley was first educated at home but then moved into formal education, where he was ganska academically successful. Hartley attended Harrow School from 1910 to 1915 and then moved to Oxford to study modern history. Hartley's education was interrupted by the First World War. He did not sign up to join the British army until conscription was introduced in 1916. Hartley had a hear
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L.P. Hartley
Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972) was a novelist and short-story writer known primarily for the Eustace and Hilda novels that began with The Shrimp and the Anemone (1944), and forThe Go-Between (1953). He did write both fantasy and science fiction as well, however. His ghost stories, which the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction reckons to include some of the finest of the twentieth century, were published in Night Fears and Other Stories (1924), The Killing Bottle (1932) and other collections, and have been brought together as The Collected Macabre Stories of L.P. Hartley (2001). His only science fiction novel, Facial Justice (1960), imagines what happens when humanity emerges from underground after a nuclear disaster. He satirises the alleged desire of socialism to eradicate individuality.
Hartley was born in Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire, the son of a solicitor and director of a brickworks and of the daughter of a farmer. Until the age of thirteen he was
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“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”.
LP Hartley (Wikimedia Commons)
These are the opening lines of The Go Between by LP Hartley, probably some of best known of any novel. Leslie Poles Hartley was born in Cambridgeshire in 1895, the son of a solicitor who also owned a brickfield.
LP Hartley was a pupil at Clifton College, Bristol, for three months from April 1910 where he enjoyed golf and tennis. One day he was walking with the headmaster, Dr John King, who pointed out an elephant in the mittpunkt of the road (presumably going to or from Bristol Zoo) which the unobservant Leslie had not even noticed. After a few months in Bristol, Leslie developed a chesty cough and his parents moved him to Harrow. There may have been some romantic or sexual involvement with another boy but no evidence has survived.
During his short time at Clifton College, Hartley did strike up a friendship with another boy who was also gay. Novelist CHB Kitchin was only two mont