Skip to main content
Search Button

Rakuten Kobo

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 26 results for “lp hartley”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Go-between

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    The moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there...'When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall. He becomes drawn deeper and deeper into their dangerous game of deceit and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Go-Between. Illustrated

    by L.P. Hartley ...
    “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” With this iconic opening line, L. P. Hartley’s The Go-Between introduces a haunting tale of lost innocence, memory, and the irreversible consequences of adult betrayal as seen through a child’s eyes. Set in the sweltering summer of 1900, the novel follows Leo Colston, a shy and impressionable 13-year-old boy who is invited to stay ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Facial Justice. Illustrated

    by L.P. Hartley ...
    In Facial Justice, L. P. Hartley paints a chilling dystopian vision of post‑war England, where society outlaws beauty, envy, and individuality, all in the name of a collectivist ideal. After the devastation of a Third World War, the survivors emerge to form the New State, governed by an unseen "Darling Dictator" whose ideals of “equality” and “uniformity” dictate every aspect of life. Citizens ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • The Classic Collection of L.P. Hartley (15 Books). Illustrated

    The Go-between, The Harness Room, Facial Justice, Eustace and Hilda, My Fellow Devils and others

    by L.P. Hartley ...
    L. P. Hartley, one of the most distinguished British novelists of the 20th century, is best known for his masterful storytelling, psychological depth, and exploration of human relationships. This collection brings together some of his most celebrated works, offering readers a comprehensive view of his literary genius. The Go-Between – A poignant tale of lost innocence and forbidden love, this ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Shadows of Innocence: The Eustace and Hilda Trilogy by L. P. Hartley. Illustrated

    by L.P. Hartley ...
    L. P. Hartley’s Eustace and Hilda Trilogy is a masterful exploration of childhood, emotional dependency, and the uneasy path to adulthood, told through the deeply entwined lives of two siblings: dreamy, sensitive Eustace and his strong-willed, morally rigid sister Hilda. Beginning with The Shrimp and the Anemone (1944), the trilogy opens in an Edwardian seaside town, where young Eustace is torn ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • A Perfect Woman

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    Chartered accountant Harold Eastwood, conventionally minded, chances to meet Alec Goodrich on the train, travelling first-class with a third-class ticket.Alec is a best-selling novelist. He soon finds Harold's knowledge of income tax allowances useful and when Alec pays a visit to the accountant his wife, Isabel, who yearns for culture and literature, quickly takes up the fantasy to be his ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Travelling Grave and Other Stories

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    Though best known for his classic novel of Edwardian childhood The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley was also a master of supernatural and macabre fiction, the best of which is collected in The Travelling Grave and Other Stories.This volume demonstrates Hartley’s versatility, ranging from traditional ghost stories like ‘Feet Foremost’ and ‘The Cotillon’ to the wonderfully black humour of the horror ... Read more

    $12.67 CAD

  • Facial Justice

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy...'Jael 97's good looks have been deemed a cause of discontent among other women, and she finds herself reporting to the Ministry of Facial Justice, where her face will be reconstructed to become 'beta' (second-grade). For she lives in a post-apocalyptic world, where society is based on a collective sense of guilt, where all citizens are labelled ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Betrayal

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    In The Betrayal, the sequel to The Brickfield, Richard Mardick, now an ageing novelist, is forced by circumstances to look back on the days of his boyhood and confesses to Denys Aspin, his young secretary and biographer-to-be, how Lucy's death has forever marred his life and distorted his inner peace.The consequences of this rash disclosure range from threats and blackmail to the entirely ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Harness Room

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    Colonel Macready thinks his bookish seventeen-year-old son Fergus is too soft, so he enlists the help of his manly chauffeur, Fred Carrington, to help whip the boy into shape. But the sweaty afternoons in the harness room above the garage take a turn the Colonel hadn’t foreseen when Fergus and Fred’s boxing sessions lead first to friendship, and then to something more . . .L. P. Hartley (1895-1972 ... Read more

    $11.26 CAD

  • The Hireling

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    Overcome with grief at her husband's death, Lady Franklin, an eligible young widow, unburdens herself to Leadbitter - a gallant, hard-bitten ex-soldier who has invested his savings in the car he drives for hire - as he takes her on a series of journeys. He in turn beguiles her with stories of his non-existent wife and children, drawing her out of her self-absorption and weaving a dream-life with ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Brickfield

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    A lonely boy living on his uncle's farm in the Lincolnshire Fens, Richard Mardick's solitary existence is interrupted by a chance meeting, and idyllic love affair, with Lucy. A disused brickfield is the scene of their clandestine meetings, and it is there that Richard finds her drowned in a muddy pool.Forced by circumstances to look back on these days, Richard finds himself recounting this episode ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD