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The Go-Between

L. P. Hartley

1953154 pagesabout 2–4 hours
1953
first published
  • 1953Penguin Books in association with Hamish Hamilton · 280 pages · ENGISBN 9780140183078
  • 1958Penguin · ENGISBN 9780140087079
  • 1971Penguin · 281 pages · ENGISBN 9780140013061
  • 1996Longman · 154 pages · ENGISBN 9780582275270
  • 1997Penguin Books · 292 pages · ENGISBN 9780140188523
  • 2000Penguin · 292 pages · ENGISBN 9780141187785
  • 2002New York Review Books · 326 pages · ENGISBN 9780940322998
  • 1981Scarborough House Publishers · 311 pages · ENGISBN 9780812860733

Narrated as a memoir, this excellent novel tells the story of one summer at the turn of the century when the narrator was a young boy. The boy spends the summer in question as a guest at a country estate where he befriends a local farmer. He soon finds himself acting as an unwitting messenger, carrying letters back and forth between the farmer and the daughter of his host on whom he has a crush.

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Emotional toneUnflinching

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ComplexityLayered

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