"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley's finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend's beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in her illicit love affair, the aftershocks will be felt for years. The inspiration for the brilliant Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates, The Go-Between is a masterpiece—a richly layered, spellbinding story about past and present, naiveté and knowledge, and the mysteries of the human heart. This volume includes, for the first time ever in North America, Hartley's own introduction to the novel.
作者简介
莱斯利•波勒斯•哈特利（Leslie Poles Hartley，1895－1972），出生在英国剑桥郡威特里斯，就读于哈罗公学和牛津大学贝列尔学院。1923年起从事小说评论写作，为《旁观者》（Spectator）、《星期六评论》（Saturday Review）、《随笔》（Sketch）、《伦敦杂志》（London Magazine）、《时光》（Time and Tide）等期刊撰稿。1924年出版短篇小说集《恐怖之夜》（Night Fears）。1944年，他的第一部长篇小说《虾米和海葵》（The Shrimp and the Anemone）问世，这是一部三部曲的第一部，其后是《第六重天》（The Sixth Heaven，1946）和《尤斯塔斯和希尔达》（Eustace and Hilda，1947），最后一本获得了詹姆斯•泰勒...