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The Eustace and Hilda trilogy (1947) and The Go-Between (1953) are acknowledged to be among the most important and best-liked works by the twentieth-century British novelist L. P. Hartley (1895-1972). Peter Bien, making use of extensive correspondence with the author, who sent him unpublished materials and also met with him personally, discusses these novels at length, adds a chapter on The Boat (1949), and examines Hartley's other novels, his book reviews, essays, and lectures. Employing biographical, historical, symbolistic, and Freudian critical approaches, he is primarily concerned with Hartley's reconciliation of the conflict between aesthetic and moral values. This study, originally published in London in 1963 by Chatto & Windus, was the first full-length treatment of Leslie Poles Hartley's work to appear; it was also Peter Bien's first published book of literary criticism, preceded by translations of two novels by Nikos Kazantzakis and followed by critical studies of writings by Kazantzakis and other modern Greek authors.

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Educated at Deerfield, Harvard, Haverford, Columbia, and Bristol University, Peter Bien professed English Literature at Dartmouth College from 1961 to 1997 but became attracted earlier to Modern Greek literature owing to his marriage in 1955 to a native Greek whom he met in a Quaker study center in England. His scholarly studies after L. P. Hartley include Kazantzakis and the Linguistic Revolution in Greek Literature, Three Generations of Greek Writers, Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit, and Yannis Ritsos: Collected Studies & Translations. He has taught as a visiting professor at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Melbourne, Thessaloniki, and Crete, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Thessaloniki, a Harbison Award for Distinguished Teaching, and three Fulbright Fellowships, the first of which, in 1958-59, enabled him to come into close personal contact with L. P. Hartley.

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