Concluding (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Vincent Yorke
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Antiutopian satire
- Time of Work: Sometime in the future
- Setting: A government training institution in England
- Principal Characters: Mr. Rock, Elizabeth, Sebastian Birt, Mabel Edge, Hermione Baker, Merode, Mary, Moira, Maggie Blain, Miss Birks
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Dystopian fiction
- Subjects: Girls, Love or romance, Psychology or psychologists, Social issues, Future, Science or scientists, Schools or school life, Individuality, England or English people, Government, Students or student life
- Locales: England
The Novel
The irony of Henry Green’s Concluding is that nothing is ever concluded in it; in fact, critics have called it his most unresolved and inconclusive novel. They have also called it the strangest and most controversial of his books. The story focuses on a future antiutopian world of the welfare state in England. The central figure is old Mr. Rock, once a distinguished scientist, who lives in a small cottage on an estate that used to be his own but which now is the site of a large institution that trains girls to be government workers.
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