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Eustace and Hilda : a trilogy / L.P. Hartley.

by Hartley, L. P. (Leslie Poles), 1895-1972.

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Putnam, [1958].

Siblings -- Fiction.

Upper class -- England -- Fiction.

New York Review Books classics

0370000390 (1958 Putnam)

9780940322806 (2001 New York Review Books trade pbk.)

Alternate title:

The shrimp and the anemone.

Hilda's letter.

The sixth heaven.

Eustace and Hilda.

736 p. ; 20 cm.

1958 Putnam edition has an introduction by David Cecil.

2001 New York Review Books edition has an introduction by Anita Brookner.

The shrimp and the anemone -- Hilda's letter -- The sixth heaven -- Eustace and Hilda.

"The three books gathered together as Eustace and Hilda explore a brother and sister's lifelong relationship. Hilda, the older child, is both self-sacrificing and domineering, as puritanical as she is gorgeous; Eustace is a gentle, dreamy, pleasure-loving boy: the two siblings could hardly be more different, but they are also deeply devoted. And yet as Eustace and Hilda grow up and seek to go their separate ways in a world of power and position, money and love, their relationship is marked by increasing pain. L. P. Hartley's much-loved novel, the magnum opus of one of twentieth-century England's best writers, is a complex and spellbinding work: a comedy of upper-class manners; a study in the subtlest nuances of feeling; a poignant reckoning with the ironies of character and fate. Above all, it is about two people who cannot live together or apart, about the ties that bind—and break."--Publisher description.

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