Party Going (novel)

Party Going (novel)

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name = Party Going
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Henry Green
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = The Hogarth Press
release_date = 1939
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 256 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = NA
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"Party Going" is a 1939 novel by British writer Henry Green (real name Henry Vincent Yorke).

It tells the story of a group of wealthy people travelling by train to a house party. Due to fog, however, the train is much delayed and the group takes rooms in the adjacent large railway hotel. All the action of the story takes place in the hotel.

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References

*cite web | title=Reading Henry Green | last=Allan | first=Brooke | work=The New Criteron | url=http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/11/mar93/green.htm | date=March 1993 | accessdate=2007-02-14
*cite book | title=Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green | last=Yorke (ed.) | first=Matthew | authorlink=Matthew Yorke | publisher=Viking Press | location= | edition= | date= | id=


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