Living.

GREEN, Henry.

Item Number: 115659

London: The Hogarth Press, 1948.

Early printing of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Contemporary name to the front free endpaper. An exceptional example.

Living is a work of sharp social satire, documenting the lives of Birmingham factory workers in the interwar boom years. It is considered a modern classic by scholars, and appears on many university syllabi. The language is notable for its deliberate lack of conjunctives to reflect a Birmingham accent. As well, very few articles are used, allegedly to mimic foreign languages (such as Arabic) that use them infrequently. It is considered a work of Modernist literature. It has been acclaimed for making Green "an honorary member of a literary movement to which he never belonged", i.e. the genre of proletarian literature.