Saturday, February 5, 2011

Loving, Living and Party Going

The perfect illustration for Green's collection of novellas: giggling  house maids

By Henry Green, intro. by John Updike, London, Penguin Classics, 1993, p. 527

These three novellas examine the social function and meaning of class in Great Britain during the interwar years.  Although the wealthy son of an iron works owner, Green is fully sympathetic with the "downstairs" characters.  The pace and plot structures are nearly perfect.

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