Research Catalog

Title

Loving / Henry Green ; introduction by Roxana Robinson.

Author

Green, Henry, 1905-1973

Publication

• New York : New York Review Books, 2016.
• ©1945

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Details

Additional Authors

Robinson, Roxana

Description

xiii, 209 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"Loving is set in the vast hereditary house of the Tennants, an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family, but the story mainly involves their servants. The war has led to a scarcity of experienced staff, and when Eldon the butler dies, Raunce the head doorman is assigned his job. The other servants are taken aback by this irregular promotion, but lovely young Edith, a recent hire, is quite attracted to the older Raunce and a flirtation begins. And it is Edith who discovers Mrs. Tennant's daughter, whose husband is fighting at the front, in bed with a neighbor one morning, scandalizing the whole household. When the Tennants depart for England, Raunce is left in charge of the house and struggles to control its disputatious inhabitants as well as to secure the love of Edith, especially after a precious family jewel disappears. In Loving, Henry Green explores the deeply precarious nature of ordinary life against the background of the larger world at war"--

Series Statement

New York Review Books Classics

Uniform Title

New York Review Books classics.

Subject

• Master and servant > Ireland > Fiction
• Castles > Ireland > Fiction
• Ireland > Fiction

Call Number

JFD 17-5243

ISBN

• 9781681370149 (alk. paper)
• 168137014X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2016019138

OCLC

932385721

Author

Green, Henry, 1905-1973, author.

Title

Loving / Henry Green ; introduction by Roxana Robinson.

Publisher

New York : New York Review Books, 2016.

Copyright Date

©1945

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New York Review Books Classics

New York Review Books classics.

Added Author

Robinson, Roxana, writer of introduction.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-5243