Eustace and Hilda : a trilogy
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Bibliographic Information
Eustace and Hilda : a trilogy
Faber and Faber, 1990, c1958
1st Stein and Day ed
- pbk.
Available at 2 libraries
Note
First published: London : Putnam , 1958
First published in paperback in 1979
Contents of Works
- The shrimp and the anemone
- Hilda's letter
- The sixth heaven
- Eustace and Hilda
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The three books gathered together as Eustace and Hilda explore a brother and sister's lifelong relationship. Hilda, the older child, is both self-sacrificing and domineering, as puritanical as she is gorgeous; Eustace is a gentle, dreamy, pleasure-loving boy: the two siblings could hardly be more different, but they are also deeply devoted. And yet as Eustace and Hilda grow up and seek to go their separate ways in a world of power and position, money and love, their relationship is marked by increasing pain. L. P. Hartley's much-loved novel, the magnum opus of one of twentieth-century England's best writers, is a complex and spellbinding work: a comedy of upper-class manners; a study in the subtlest nuances of feeling; a poignant reckoning with the ironies of character and fate. Above all, it is about two people who cannot live together or apart, about the ties that bind--and break.
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