The Go-Between experience. Among other writers commenting on the book's contemporary context, Paul Binding has pointed out that its famous opening phrase, “The past is a foreign country”, had first been used by Hartley’s friend Lord David Cecil in his inaugural lecture as Goldsmith's Professor in 1949. Ali Smith revisited the observed parallel drawn between the treatment of class and sexuality in "The Go-Between" and in "Lady Chatterley's Lover" (1928). D. H. Lawrence’s novel was not allowed unexpurgated circulation in Britain until after "The Go-Between"s appearance, but perhaps, she speculated, Hartley's novel helped prepare the climate for the overturning of the British
Go (Holmes novel) of the cast of characters, almost as a mantra. In Britain "Go" was originally published as "The Beat Boys". The characters in "Go" are, as was common in beat generation literature, representations of the real people the author knew while writing the book. Go (Holmes novel) Go is a semi-autobiographical novel by John Clellon Holmes. (Holmes referred to the book as a "roman à clef".) It is considered to be the first published novel depicting the beat generation. Set in New York, it concerns the lives of a collection of characters largely based on the friends Holmes used to hang