The Go-Between (2015 film) The Go-Between (2015 film) The Go-Between is a 2015 British romantic drama film based on the 1953 novel "The Go-Between" by L. P. Hartley. It was filmed at Englefield House in Berkshire. Leo, an elderly man, is travelling back to the place where he spent the summer of 1900 as the guest of a much wealthier school friend, Marcus Maudsley. On his journey he recalls the events surrounding his original visit, during which he had celebrated his thirteenth birthday and also become besotted with his friend’s older sister Marian, whose family strongly hoped that she would marry the local landowner,
Go (Holmes novel) 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 around with in the 1940s and 1950s in Manhattan. An underworld of drug-fueled parties, bars, clubs and free love is explored through the eyes of character Paul Hobbes, Holmes' representation of himself in the novel. Hobbes is torn between joining his friends in