This book includes an an Introduction by D.J. Taylor. Three brilliant novels which span Henry Green's career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. "Nothing" is a tale of the merry-go-round of love, marriage and infidelity, and the ceaseless intergenerational tussle of innocence versus experience. "Doting" sets the middle-aged male infatuation for pretty girls against the comfortable affection of wives/old friends, delving into the complications of burgeoning affairs and boring marriages. In "Blindness", Green's first novel, a young man is blinded in a senseless accident but thereafter discovers new imaginative powers.
Author Biography
Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. He was born in 1905 at the family home of his parents, near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He worked at the family engineering firm for most of his life and pursued a parallel career as a novelist. He married in 1929 and had one son. During WWII he served for the duration in the London Fire Brigade. He died in December 1973.
