Novels
- Blindness (1926)
- Living (1929)
- Party Going (1939)
- Caught (1943)
- Loving (1945)
- Back (1946)
- Concluding (1948)
- Nothing (1950)
- Doting (1952)
Collections
- Surviving (2020)
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Blindness
‘Blindness is a major novel…
Every character and every scene is shot through with significance after significance.’ The Times London Blinded in an accident on his way home from boarding school, John Haye must reevaluate his life and the possibilities for his future. His stepmother worried that, blind and dependent, he’ll spend his life with her wants to marry him off to anyone who will take him, provided she’s of the ‘right’ social class. Contrary to her hopes, John falls in love with the daughter of the town drunk who is also the town parson. She whisks John off to London, where in this strange city he is confined to a room above a major thoroughfare while she gets on with her life. Blindness was first published when Henry Green was an undergraduate at Oxford. Highly praised as a master of high modernism, Green went on to write eight other novels, including Concluding and Doting.
Living
Henry Green explored class distinctions through the medium of love. This volume brings together three of his novels contrasting the lives of servants and masters Loving; workers and owners, set in a Birmingham iron foundry Living; and the different lives of the wealthy and the ordinary, Party Going.
Caught
When war breaks out, Roe volunteers for the Auxillary Fire Service in London, and is trained under a professional fire officer, Pye. The two men discover that a quite different link exists between them. In the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Blitz, the relationship between the two men develops.
Back
One legged Charley Summers is finally home from the war, after several years in a German prison camp, only to find he must now deal with the death of his lover Rose. A shell shocked romantic slow, distant, and dreamy he begins to have trouble telling Rose’s half sister Nancy apart from Rose herself, now buried in the village churchyard. Coping and failing to cope with the quiet realities of daily life, Charley’s delusions elevate his timid courtship of a practical and unremarkable young woman into an amnesiac love story both comic and disturbing. A contemporary of Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green was one of the greatest English novelists of the twentieth century, and Back is his most haunting and personal work.
Concluding
On an ordinary day at a girl’s school, two students are reported missing. The subsequent search involves the neighboring widower Old Mr. Rock and his granddaughter and her fiance, and uncovers the hidden lusts, ambitions, suspicions and jealousies that lie beneath the school’s placid surface. Admired in his lifetime by W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Eudora Welty, Anthony Burgess, and Rebecca West, among others, Henry Green wrote nine novels, including Loving, Caught, and Blindness. He is also the author of a memoir, Pack My Bags, and Surviving, a book of uncollected writings. Green considered Concluding to be his finest work. First published in the U.S. by Viking 1948, most recent paperback by University of Chicago 1985.
Nothing
Jane Weatherby wants a more exciting match for her son than Mary Pomfret and decides to take action to break off their engagement. Central to her schemes is Mary’s father, John, who used to be Jane’s lover and just might be again. Narrated mainly through Henry Green’s incomparable comic dialogue, Nothing is a satiric comedy of manners. First published in the U.S. by Viking 1950, most recent paperback edition published by Penguin in the collection Nothing; Doting, Blindness 1993.
Doting
When Arthur Middleton falls for Annabel, a young woman of his son’s generation, he sets into motion an intertwining of affairs between five close friends. As relationships are uncovered and jealous plots hatched, Green exposes the deceptive difference between those who love and those who ‘dote’ in this biting comedy of manners.
Surviving
A collection of work by Henry Green is introduced by John Updike and includes never before published short stories, pieces on London during the Blitz, journalism, book reviews, a play, and more.
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