The Go-Between (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: L. P. Hartley
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Romance
- Time of Work: 1900, with framing chapters that take place in 1951 or 1952
- Setting: Chiefly at Brandham Hall in Norfolk, England
- Principal Characters: Leo Colston, Marcus Maudsley, Marian Maudsley, Hugh, Viscount Trimingham, Ted Burgess, Edward
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Magic or magicians, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Spiritual life or spirituality, England or English people, Christianity, Ethics, Houses, mansions, or manors
- Locales: Norfolk, England
The Novel
The narrative structure of L. P. Hartley’s The Go-Between develops out of the discovery by Leo Colston, the novel’s protagonist and first-person narrator, of a diary he kept while visiting his schoolmate Marcus Maudsley at Brandham Hall in 1900. The diary, come upon in 1951 or 1952 in a box of mementos preserved by his late mother, prompts Leo to recall his life at Southdown Hill School prior to his visit to the Maudsleys in July and August. The prologue to the novel details these memories; the epilogue shows Leo returning to Norfolk to fill in gaps in his...
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