Генри Грин: Nothing

Jane Weatherby wants a more exciting match for her son than Mary Pomfret and decides to take action to break off their engagement. Central to her schemes is Mary s father, John, who used to be Jane s lover and just might be again. Narrated mainly through Henry Green s incomparable comic dialogue, Nothing is a satiric comedy of manners.

First published in the U.S. by Viking (1950), most recent paperback edition published by Penguin in the collection Nothing, Doting, Blindness (1993).