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Pack My Bag

With an Introduction by Alan Ross

Henry Green chronicles his early life, providing a delightfully wayward and incisive portrait of English society and of the man himself. From reminiscences of a childhood spent among the gentry, to searing descriptions of Eton and Oxford, to reflections on the author's first experiments with prose and with sex.

Subject
biography
Setting
20th century
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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