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- catalog abstract ""Romancing tells the story of a man once described as possessing 'a strange mix of dash and melancholy', who listed just one recreation in Who's Who: 'romancing over the bottle, to a good band'. It explores his aristocratic upbringing; his time at Oxford, where his contemporaries included Evelyn Waugh and his tutor was C.S. Lewis; his period as a firefighter in the Blitz; his flirtations; his final years as a recluse; and above all his writing." "Part of the fascination of Henry Green's life stems from its juxtaposition of very different periods of history - from the 'Brideshead Generation' to the Blitz. This long-awaited biography also provides an assessment of Green's achievement as a novelist who wrote incomparably about the lives of working people as well as the upper classes during a period of convulsive social change." "In this account of his life, biographer Jeremy Treglown explores the psychological interplay between Henry Green the author and Henry Yorke the man."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11917462.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Romancing tells the story of a man once described as possessing 'a strange mix of dash and melancholy', who listed just one recreation in Who's Who: 'romancing over the bottle, to a good band'. It explores his aristocratic upbringing; his time at Oxford, where his contemporaries included Evelyn Waugh and his tutor was C.S. Lewis; his period as a firefighter in the Blitz; his flirtations; his final years as a recluse; and above all his writing." "Part of the fascination of Henry Green's life stems from its juxtaposition of very different periods of history - from the 'Brideshead Generation' to the Blitz. This long-awaited biography also provides an assessment of Green's achievement as a novelist who wrote incomparably about the lives of working people as well as the upper classes during a period of convulsive social change." "In this account of his life, biographer Jeremy Treglown explores the psychological interplay between Henry Green the author and Henry Yorke the man."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 340 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0571168981".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Faber and Faber,".
- catalog spatial "English".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "823.912 21".
- catalog subject "Aristocracy (Social class) Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Green, Henry, 1905-1973.".
- catalog subject "Green, Henry, 1905-1974.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society English History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, English 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "PR6013.R416 Z89 2000".
- catalog subject "Social classes in literature.".
- catalog title "Romancing : the life and work of Henry Green / Jeremy Treglown.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".