num_pages: 226
description: Written almost completely in dialogue, Henry Green's final novel is a biting comedy of manners that exposes the deceptive difference between those who love and those who "dote." Arthur Middleton is a middle-aged member of the upper-middle class living in post-World War II London with his wife. Stuck in a passionless marriage, Arthur becomes infatuated with Annabel, a much younger woman. Their relationship sets into motion a series of intertwining affairs between five close friends less concerned with love than with their attempts to keep the other lovers apart.
language: English
title: Doting
titlecomplete: Doting (British Literature)
genres: Classics, British Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 214
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press