The Hireling

Name: The Hireling
Author: L. P. Hartley

by L. P. Hartley

Novel exploring class tension between a man and woman in a doomed relationship through a hired driver

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L. P. Hartley

Hartley was a distinguished novelist of memory, class, and the damage done by the past, most famous for The Go-Between's celebrated opening observation about the foreignness of the past. His Eustace and Hilda trilogy is his most sustained achievement.

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The Go-BetweenNovel of a boy's coming of age when he becomes an unwitting messenger between star-crossed lovers
The Shrimp and the AnemoneNovel depicting the intense childhood friendship and sibling rivalry between two young friends
Eustace and HildaTrilogy following childhood friends through decades of emotional entanglement and moral complexity
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