Pack My Bag: A Self Portrait - Couverture souple

Green, Henry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0701209887 ISBN 13 : 9780701209889

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1992

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. Born in 1905 near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, he was educated at Eton and Oxford and went on to become managing director of an engineering business, writing novels in his spare time. His first novel, Blindness (1926) was written whilst he was still at school and published whilst he was at Oxford. He married in 1929 and had one son, and during the Second World War served in the London Fire Brigade. Between 1926 and 1952 he wrote nine novels, Blindness, Living, Party Going, Caught, Loving, Back, Concluding, Nothing and Doting, and a memoir, Pack My Bag. Henry Green died in December 1973

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Henry Green wrote his autobiography in 1940, aged only thirty-five, because he was convinced he wouldn't survive the war. The result is a delightfully wayward and incisive portrait of English society and of the man himself. From reminiscences of a childhood spent among the gentry, to searing descriptions of Eton and Oxford, to reflections on the author's first experiments with prose and with sex, all Green's unique talents as a writer are on offer here, at their most dazzling and accessible.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0701209887
• ISBN 13: 9780701209889
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 242