Pack My Bag (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Joanne Greenberg
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1905-1927
- Setting: Great Britain
- Principal Characters: Henry Vincent Yorke
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Adolescence, Education or educators, Novelists, Upper classes, Youth, Students or student life
Form and Content
In 1938, at age thirty-three, fearing that the incipient world war would bring about his death, Henry Green felt the necessity to create a written record of his life. He could not see that he had the time left to use his material in the less personal and, to him, better form of the novel. So he wrote this autobiography, which takes him from his earliest memories at home through his education, culminating in two years at the University of Oxford. The autobiography concludes with a brief description of his work in 1927 as a laborer in his family’s...
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