The Go-Between The Go-Between The Go-Between is a novel by L. P. Hartley published in 1953. His best-known work, it has been adapted several times for stage and screen. The book gives a critical view of society at the end of the Victorian era through the eyes of a naïve schoolboy outsider. In the book’s prologue, Leo Colston chances upon a diary from 1900, the year of his thirteenth birthday, and gradually pieces together a memory that he has suppressed. Under its influence, and from the viewpoint of what he has become by the midpoint of "this hideous century", Leo relives the
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (novel) his way to Paris. When he discovers that he is being trailed by a Dutch police detective the man becomes more and more delusional, seeing himself as a master criminal and certain that the woman he has become involved with, his former employer's mistress, is genuinely interested in him, rather than the bag of stolen money he has carried with him from the Netherlands. The book was adapted for the film "The Man Who Watched Trains Go By" (1952) starring Claude Rains and Märta Torén and directed by Harold French. The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (novel) The