Leslie Poles Hartley sustains his high critical reputation and faithful readership in twentieth-century British fiction as a minor but respected writer of well-made novels of manners and sensibility n...
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L. P. Hartley's generally favorable critical reputation and dedicated readership in twentieth-century British short fiction have been primarily sustained through his Gothic tales, a genre he once desc...
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Critical Essay by The Saturday Review
[L. P. Hartley cares] seriously for truth, but in [Simonetta Perkins] human nature becomes, without falsification, something not easily recognizable…. Mr. ...
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Critical Essay by Walter Allen
When we first met Eustace Cherrington [in The Shrimp and the Anemone] he was a little boy of nine living in an East Anglian seaside town at the beginning of the century ...
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Critical Essay by Paul Pickrel
[The Go-Between] is a study of a boy's premature initiation into the mysteries of evil….
The Go-Between is a very literary novel, and its literariness is o...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
Mr. Hartley's curious new novel [Facial Justice] is a kind of religious science-fiction, part fantasy about the future and part satirical fable a...
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Critical Essay by Harvey Curtis Webster
[L. P. Hartley's] best novels are the Eustace and Hilda trilogy, The Boat, and The Go-Between, three of the most significant novels published in our cent...
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Critical Essay by John Athos
[L. P. Hartley's] experiments in form and technique … are limited, and it is not unfair, I think, to speak of him in these respects as an Edwardian writer, a...
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Critical Essay by Rosalind Wade
L. P. Hartley is regarded as being one of the century's leading novelists but if he had written only short stories his fame would have been equally assured. The ...
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Critical Essay by Anne Mulkeen
Basically, Hartley's novels seem variations on the Bildungsroman, the traditional novel of quest for selfhood. In each a more or less sensitive, perhaps slightly ...
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