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
Five Go Down to the Sea Five Go Down to the Sea Five Go Down To The Sea is the twelfth novel in The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. It was first published in 1953. In this novel, The Famous Five decide to spend their time at a lonely and haunted farm in Cornwall suggested by Uncle Quentin and encounter Mr Penruthlan. They hear a story of the long-ago wrecking business. However, lights are being shone at night directing ships to the rocks. Is there a mystery on the way? This book has nineteen chapters describing the adventures of the Five. The novel begins with