Тонкие, ироничные, парадоксальные, вобравшие в себя лучшие традиции английской новеллистики, произведения Л.П. Хартли (1895-1972) давно вошли в золотой фонд мировой литературы. В данном сборнике представлены лирические, психологические и так называемые "готические" рассказы.
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Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972) was born in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, and educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. For more than thirty years from 1923 he was an indefatigable fiction reviewer for periodicals including the Spectator and Saturday Review. His first book, Night Fears (1924) was a collection of short stories; but it was not until the publication of Eustace and Hilda (1947), which won the James Tait Black prize, that Hartley gained widespread recognition as an author. His other novels include The Go-Between (1953), which was adapted into an internationally-successful film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates, and The Hireling (1957), the film version of which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.