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Book SynopsisDazzling, daring and full of original insight and wit, Henry Green offers a unique view of a class-ridden Britain enduring both war and its aftermath. In the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Blitz, so brilliantly evoked in Caught, gossip spreads like wildfire and the lives of two men are torn apart. In Back, Charley, an amputee, returns from a prison camp to his village and the grave of the woman he loved. Concluding was Green's own favourite of his novels and tells the story of a summer's day and a schoolgirl's disappearance.
The text of Caught used in this edition is based on Green's original manuscript, which was censored by the publisher on first publication, but can be read now for the first time in unexpurgated form.
Trade ReviewThe greatest of the English modernists after [DH] Lawrence and Virginia Woolf -- James Wood
Henry Green's novels are among the most dazzling, inventive and individual of the last century * Daily Telegraph *
The finest living English novelist -- W.H. Auden
The most gifted prose writer of his generation -- V.S. Pritchett
His novels made more of a stylistic impact on me than those of any writer, living or dead -- John Updike
