L. P. Hartley

by Paul Bloomfield

L. P. Hartley is a novelist with a piety for days gone by, the period and the ambience in which he grew up. He shows a particular mastery in describing the years of childhood and adolescence. His first major novel, The Shrimp and the Anemone, is the story of an over-protective, possessive elder sister and an excessively dependent and timid small boy: it is set in the early years of the century, but it did not appear until 1944 when the author...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582012171
• ISBN13: 9780582012172
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 36 Pages