num_pages: 876
description: The three books gathered together as Eustace and Hilda explore a brother and sister's lifelong relationship. Hilda, the older child, is both self-sacrificing and domineering, as puritanical as she is gorgeous; Eustace is a gentle, dreamy, pleasure-loving the two siblings could hardly be more different, but they are also deeply devoted. And yet as Eustace and Hilda grow up and seek to go their separate ways in a world of power and position, money and love, their relationship is marked by increasing pain.L. P. Hartley's much-loved novel, the magnum opus of one of twentieth-century England's best writers, is a complex and spellbinding a comedy of upper-class manners; a study in the subtlest nuances of feeling; a poignant reckoning with the ironies of character and fate. Above all, it is about two people who cannot live together or apart, about the ties that bind—and break.
language: English
title: Eustace and Hilda
titlecomplete: Eustace and Hilda
genres: 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 239
series: Eustace and Hilda
awards: awardedAt: -725817600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: NYRB Classics