L. P. Hartley

Leslie Poles HARTLEY (n. la 30-a de decembro 1895, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire  – m. la 13-a de decembro 1972, Londono) estis angla verkisto, Komandanto de la Ordeno de la Brita Imperio (CBE), kaj aŭtoro de pluraj kolektoj de noveloj kaj romanoj, el kiuj la plej fama, The Go-Between,  filmita (scenaro de Harold Pinter). Mistikismo okupas signifan lokon en la verkaro de Hartley: li estas agnoskita majstro de la ĝenro " fantomrakontoj ".  

 Vivo kaj verkado 
Hartley studis en Oksfordo. Li batalis en la Unua Mondmilito kaj poste laboris kiel literatura kritikisto por The Spectator kaj The Observer, inter aliaj. En 1924 li debutis per kolekto de fantomrakontoj, Night Fears. Lia plej konata libro estas la romano The Messenger of the Gods (1953), kiun Harold Pinter adaptis en scenaron por la filmo The Messenger (1971) de Joseph Losey.

Kritika analizo de la fantomrakontoj de Hartley troviĝas en Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story From Le Fanu to Blackwood de Jack Sullivan (1978). Plia kritika eseo pri ili troviĝas en * The Evolution of the Weird Tale* de S.T. Joshi ( 2004).

 Verkaro 

 Night Fears (1924):
 "The Island", "Talent", "Night Fears", "The Telephone Call", "St. George and the Dragon", "Friends of the Bridegroom", "A Portrait", "A Sentimental Journey", "A Beautiful Character", "A Summons", "A Visit to the Dentist", "The New Prime Minister", "A Condition of Release", "A Tonic", "Witheling End", "Apples", "The Last Time"
 Simonetta Perkins (1925)
 The Killing Bottle (1932):
 "A Visitor from Down Under", "The Killing Bottle", "Conrad and the Dragon", "A Change of Ownership", "The Cotillon", "Feet Foremost"
 The Shrimp and the Anemone (1944), Eustace and Hilda Trilogy I
 The Sixth Heaven (1946), Eustace and Hilda Trilogy II
 Eustace and Hilda (1947), Eustace and Hilda Trilogy III
 The Travelling Grave and Other Stories (1948):
 "A Visitor from Down Under", "Podolo", "Three, or Four, for Dinner", "The Travelling Grave", "Feet Foremost", "The Cotillon", "A Change of Ownership", "The Thought", "Conrad and the Dragon", "The Island", "Night Fears", "The Killing Bottle"
 The Boat (1949)
 My Fellow Devils (1951)
 The Go-Between (1953)
 The White Wand and Other Stories (1954):
 "The White Wand", "Apples", "A Tonic", "A Condition of Release", "Witheling End", "Mr Blandfoot's Picture", "A Rewarding Experience", "W.S.", "The Vaynes", "Monkshood Manor", "Up the Garden Path", "Hilda's Garden", "A Summons", "The Price of the Absolute"
 A Perfect Woman (1955)
 The Hireling (1957)
 Facial Justice (1960)
 Two for the River (1961):
 "Two for the River", "Someone in the Lift", "The Face", "The Corner Cupboard", "The Waits", "The Pampas Clump", "Won by a Fall", "A Very Present Help", "A High Dive", "The Crossways", "Per Far L'Amore", "Interference", "Noughts and Crosses", "The Pylon"
 The Brickfield (1964)
 The Betrayal (1966)
 Essays by Divers Hands, Volume XXXIV (1966), editor
 The Novelist's Responsibility (1967), essays
 Poor Clare (1968)
 The Collected Short Stories of L. P. Hartley (1968)
 The Love-Adept: A Variation on a Theme (1969)
 My Sisters' Keeper (1970)
 Mrs. Carteret Receives (1971):
 "Mrs Carteret Receives", "Paradise Paddock", "Pains and Pleasures", "Please Do Not Touch", "Roman Charity", "Home Sweet Home", "The Shadow on the Wall", "The Silver Clock", "Fall In at the Double"
 The Harness Room (1971)
 The Collections: A Novel (1972)
 The Will and the Way (1973)
 The Complete Short Stories of L. P. Hartley (1973)
 The Collected Macabre Stories (2001):
 "From the Introduction to Lady Cynthia Asquith’s Third Ghost Book", "A Visitor from Down Under", "Podolo", "Three, or Four, for Dinner", "The Travelling Grave", "Feet Foremost", "The Cotillon", "A Change of Ownership", "The Thought", "Conrad and the Dragon", "The Island", "Night Fears", "The Killing Bottle", "A Summons", "W.S.", "The Two Vaynes", "Monkshood Manor", "Two for the River", "Someone in the Lift", "The Face", "The Corner Cupboard", "The Waits", "The Pampas Clump", "The Crossways", "Per Far L'Amore", "Interference", "The Pylon", "Mrs Carteret Receives", "Fall In at the Double", "Paradise Paddock", "Roman Charity", "Pains and Pleasures", "Please Do Not Touch", "Home Sweet Home", "The Shadow on the Wall", "The Sound of Voices", "Mrs G. G.", "The Stain on the Chair"

 Citaĵoj 
”La pasinteco estas fremda lando; oni tie faras aferojn alimaniere.” (Tiel komenciĝas la romano The Go-Between (1953)

 Referencoj 

 Eksteraj ligiloj 

 L. P. Hartley manuskriptoj kaj materialoj en la L. Tom Perry Specialaj Kolektoj, Harold B. Lee Biblioteko, Brigham Juna Universitato
 L. P. Hartley Paperoj ĉe John Rylands Biblioteko, Manĉestro.

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