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Loving / Henry Green ; introduction by Roxana Robinson.

Title
Loving / Henry Green ; introduction by Roxana Robinson.
Author
Green, Henry, 1905-1973
Publication
New York : New York Review Books, [2016]

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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
Genre/Form
Fiction
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781681370149
  • 168137014X
  • 9781681370156 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2016019138
OCLC
  • 932385721
  • SCSB-10927016
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library