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The Shrimp and the Anemone

(Paperback, FF Classics)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Shrimp and the Anemone

Contributors:

By (Author) L.P. Hartley

ISBN:

9780571203826

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publication Date:

1st July 2005

UK Publication Date:

3rd April 2000

Edition:

FF Classics

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

823.912

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

240

Dimensions:

Width 110mm, Height 178mm, Spine 18mm

Weight:

200g

Description

There is a delicious irony and humour in this Jamesian story about Eustace and Hilda, an Edwardian brother and sister, with its famous opening scene as nine-year-old Eustace watches an anemone devour a shrimp in a tidepool among the rocks on a Norfolk beach during the summer holidays. A shadow begins to be cast over the children's innocent conversations and gaucherie, revealing their anxieties about themselves, and the constraints of their cosseted lives, as the outside world - of other children, dancing lessons, adults, illness, funerals, money, excursions in landaus, future schools - impinges in Eustace and Hilda's intimacies and fantasies.

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