Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972) was born in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, and educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. For more than thirty years from 1923 he was an indefatigable fiction reviewer for periodicals including the Spectator and Saturday Review. His first book, Night Fears (1924) was a collection of short stories; but it was not until the publication of Eustace and Hilda (1947), which won the James Tait Black prize, that Hartley gained widespread recognition as an author. His other novels include The Go-Between (1953), which was adapted into an internationally-successful film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates, and The Hireling (1957), the film version of which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Books in order of publication:
Night Fears (1924)
Simonetta Perkins – (1925)
The Killing Bottle (1932)
The Shrimp and the Anemone (1944), Eustace and Hilda Trilogy I
The Sixth Heaven (1946), Eustace and Hilda Trilogy II
Eustace and Hilda (1947), Eustace and Hilda Trilogy III
The Travelling Grave and Other Stories (1948)
The Boat (1949)
My Fellow Devils (1951)
The Go-Between (1953)
The White Wand and Other Stories (1954)
A Perfect Woman (1955)
The Hireling (1957)
Facial Justice (1960)
Two for the River (1961)
The Brickfield (1964)
The Betrayal (1966)
Essays by Divers Hands, Volume XXXIV (1966), editor
The Novelist’s Responsibility (1967), essays
Poor Clare (1968)
The Collected Short Stories of L. P. Hartley (1968)
The Love-Adept: A Variation on a Theme (1969)
My Sisters’ Keeper (1970)
Mrs. Carteret Receives (1971)
The Harness Room (1971)
The Collections: A Novel (1972)
The Will and the Way (1973)
The Complete Short Stories of L. P. Hartley (1973)
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