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Title	:	The Shrimp and the Anemone (Eustace and Hilda #1)
Author	:	L.P. Hartley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 190 pages
Published	:	December 1st 1963 by Faber & Faber (first published 1944)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. European Literature. British Literature. Novels

The Shrimp and the Anemone (Eustace and Hilda #1)

L.P. Hartley

Paperback | Pages: 190 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 277 Users | 29 Reviews

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Oh, L.P. Hartley, why are you forgotten?

This is the second Hartley book I've read (the first was The Go-Between), and if anything this one was even better. Both of the books take a double view, with a main character seeing things from childhood and the reader having access to what the adult world probably actually looks like. This is the same technique that makes The House in Paris so enjoyable, and what I wanted from and did not find in What Maisie Knew, though of course for the latter, it may just be that I find James' prose extremely heavy going, like trying to swim through some kind of boring and viscous liquid.

I think perhaps part of the attraction for this book was also that I recognize this inner state, and this theory about child-raising: that correction is more important than praise, and that praise will certainly lead to being spoiled, and that being spoiled is somehow the same as not submitted, as expressing one's own will. Eustance's various terrors seem real and convincing and even, from the point of view of such a childhood, reasonable. I'd like to read the two others in this little series of novels, though I wonder how Hartley will hold up as his characters reach adulthood. Of course, the gap between an inner life and an outer one does not disappear with adulthood, even if it doesn't take the form of nightmares and a complete lack of understanding about capital versus interest. And of course lovely prose is good for all purposes.

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Original Title:	The Shrimp and the Anemone (Faber Fiction Classics)
ISBN:	0571070612 (ISBN13: 9780571070619)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Eustace and Hilda #1
Setting:	Norfolk, England

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I am afraid I have this one up after a few pages, just not my kind of book.

Excellent portrayal of an Edwardian child's psyche.

Before I read Shrimp and the Anemone, I never imagined that I would enjoy reading about a nine year old boy and how the world appears from his perspective. But this story is written with such sensitivity and skill that it reawakened past emotions I thought had faded over the years and been lost forever. What a great writer L.P.Hartley was.

This is a brilliant depiction of childhood with all its agonies and misunderstandings - Eustace is confronted with a world which is alien to him or which he thinks (mistakenly) he has understood only to realise he hasn't. There are relatively few books seen from the point of view of a child and this is one of the best I have read.

The Shrimp and the Anemone by LP Hartley10 out of 10The Shrimp and the Anemone is a glorious, phenomenal, outstanding, insightful, incredible, rather short masterpiece that has been included on The Guardian 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list:https://www.theguardian.com/books/200...the hero of the chef doeuvre is Eustace and the formidable access to the mind of a nine year old is a fantastic joy and the main character is such a remarkable, gentle, brave, complex, intriguing figure as to make

Very sweet portrait of a close bond between brother and sister. Just a bit too dry for me.