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L.P. Hartley

born

December 13, 1901 in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, The United Kingdom

died

December 30, 1972

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Full name: Leslie Poles Hartley

Average rating: 3.87 · 2,647 ratings · 263 reviews · 22 distinct works

	The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley, Colm Tóibín (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 1,285 ratings — published 1953 — 29 editions	My rating:
	My Sisters' Keeper 3.94 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1970	My rating:
	Eustace and Hilda by L.P. Hartley, Anita Brookner (Introduction) 3.84 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1947 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Hireling 3.80 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1957 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Shrimp and the Anemone 3.58 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1944 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Facial Justice 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1960 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Collected Macabre Stories 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Simonetta Perkins by L.P. Hartley, Margaret Drabble (Foreword by) 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1925 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Travelling Grave and Other Stories 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1948 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Sixth Heaven 2.86 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

tags: memories , past , reality

“It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.”
― L.P. Hartley

“You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

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