Eustace and Hilda; a trilogy
By: by L.P. Hartley.
Publisher: Putnam; British Book Centre
Published: 1958
Place of publication: [London]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 736
Other titles: The shrimp and the anemone.; Hilda's letter.; The sixth heaven.
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 boy: 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 work: 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.
Table of contents: title: The shrimp and the anemone.; title: Hilda's letter.; title: The sixth heaven.; title: Eustace and Hilda.