Pearson English Graded Readers: Level 4: The Go-Between Book and MP3 Pack : Industrial Ecology (Mixed media product)

from dmarsh451

The household will be happy to have my attention again. It hasn't seen a flicker of it since I started reading this book. I've seen the movie. Liked it very much. Yet even knowing what was going to happen, the story in the book still felt new to me. That's a quality in the writing; it's the kind ...

from jrimorin

What a sad, involving book. An obvious inspiration for Ian McEwan's ATONEMENT, this is perfect reading for his fans as well as fans of John Fowles. I haven't seen the Julie Christie movie -- I do not want the movie to spoil the golden-hued, drizzle-rain scented summery sensations of the novel.

from Peterlemat

I had watched the movie first. Then I got the book. I went into it with a little hesitation since I thought of it as very plot-driven story and therefore "spoiled" by having watched the movie. Boy was I wrong. One thing that comes through much better in the book is the emotional development of th...

from reichec

Beautifully written, and with an uncanny representation of an adolescent mind, this novel by L P Hartley, published in 1953, is an absolute delight. Yet it is a delight deeply overshadowed in the end by poignant sadness. It is essentially a tale of the prelude to, and the effects of, the unveilin...

from PilgrimJess

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." An oft heard and quoted line but one until starting this book I had no idea as to its provenance. My education was sadly missing not unlike young Leo Colston's. I won't dwell too long on the plot other than to say that a 60+ year ...