{"product_id":"eustace-and-hilda-9780940322806","title":"Eustace and Hilda","description":"The three books gathered together as \u003ci\u003eEustace and Hilda\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eL. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eL.P. Hartley (1895-1972), the son of the director of a brickworks, attended Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, before setting out on a career as a literary critic and writer of short stories. In 1944 he published his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Shrimp and the Anemone\u003c\/i\u003e, the opening volume of the trilogy \u003ci\u003eEustace and Hilda\u003c\/i\u003e. In the spring of 1952, Hartley began \u003ci\u003eThe Go-Between\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel strongly rooted in his childhood. By October he had already completed the first draft, and the finished product was published in early 1953. \u003ci\u003eThe Go-Between\u003c\/i\u003e became an immediate critical and popular success and has long been considered Hartley's finest book. His many other novels include \u003ci\u003eFacial Justice, The Hireling, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Love-Adept\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnita Brookner is an art historian and novelist. She lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676078342418,"sku":"9780940322806","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f2f4bb88-460e-4dd7-a895-8947a3297099.jpg?v=1761041971","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/eustace-and-hilda-9780940322806","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}