Henry Green explored class distinctions through the medium of love. This volume brings together three of his novels contrasting the lives of servants and masters ( Loving ); workers and owners, set in a Birmingham iron foundry ( Living ); and the different lives of the wealthy and the ordinary, ( Party Going ).

Henry Green was the nom de plume of Henry Vincent Yorke (29 October 1905 - 13 December 1973), an English author best remembered for the novel Loving, which was featured by Time in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 list.