Henry Green : class, style and the everyday /

This book offers a critical prism through which Green's fiction, from his earliest published short stories, as an Eton schoolboy, through to his last dialogic novels of the 1950s, can be seen as a coherent, subtle and humorous critique of the tension between class, style and realism in the firs...

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Main Author: Shepley, Nick (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
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