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Eustace and Hilda

by L.P. Hartley
Anita Brookner
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This three novel collection first published in 1944 explores a brother and sister’s coming of age and changing relationship in the English countryside and Venice
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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Series: Eustace and Hilda Publisher: New York Review Books

Kindle Book

  • Release date: June 6, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9781590175354
  • Release date: June 6, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9781590175354
  • File size: 868 KB
  • Release date: June 6, 2012

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Fiction Literature Historical Fiction

Languages

English

This three novel collection first published in 1944 explores a brother and sister’s coming of age and changing relationship in the English countryside and Venice
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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Fiction Literature Historical Fiction