by L. P. Hartley · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140183078
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«The Go-Between» is L. P. Hartley's coming-of-age novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Set in the summer of 1900, it recounts the stay of Leo Colston, a boy, at the estate of his friend Marcus Maudsley. There, Marian, Marcus's older sister, and Ted, a farmer, turn him into a messenger for a secret romance. Leo glimpses the contradictions of the adult world and the consequences of a forbidden passion.
Originally published in 1953, it won the W. H. Heinemann Prize in 1954; it was adapted into a film with Julie Christie and Alan Bates.
Will appeal to readers of British classics and coming-of-age novels, with Edwardian England and the loss of innocence as central themes.
Leslie Poles Hartley was an English novelist and short story writer. Although his first fiction was published in 1924, his best-known works are the Eustace and Hilda trilogy (1944–1947) and The Go-Between (1953). The latter was made into a film in 1971, as was his 1957 novel The Hireling in 1973.
