| Description |
6 unnumbered pages, 375 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
1. The contemporary English novel -- 2. Waiting for Beckett: quest and re-quest -- 3. Lawrence Durrell: physical and metaphysical love -- 4. The politics of conscience: the novels of C.P. Snow -- 5. Graham Greene's demonical heroes -- 6. The world of Elizabeth Bowen -- 7. Joyce Cary: the moralist as novelist -- 8. George Orwell: the white man's burden -- 9. The world of Evelyn Waugh: the normally insane -- 10. Normality defined: the novels of Henry Green -- 11. The intimate world of Ivy Compton-Burnett -- 12. The angries: is there a Protestant in the house? -- 13. The still comic music of humanity: the novels of Anthony Powell, Angus Wilson, and Nigel Dennis -- 14. The novel as moral allegory: the fiction of William Golding, Iris Murdoch, Rex Warner, and P.H. Newby -- 15. Composite -- 16. Major work in the Sixties: Doris Lessing and Anthony Powell -- 17. Postscript: 1960-1970. Nigel Dennis, Lawrence Durrell, William Golding, Grahame Greene, Iris Murdoch, Alan Sillitoe, C.P. Snow, Muriel Spark, Angus Wilson, John Fowles, Anthony Burgess -- Index |
| Summary |
Samuel Beckett - Lawrence Durrell - C.P. Snow - Graham Greene - Elizabeth Bowen - Joyce Cary - George Orwell - Evelyn Waugh - Henry Green - Iris Murdoch - William Golding - Doris Lessing - Anthony Powell |
| Analysis |
Fiction in English, 1900- Critical studies |
| Notes |
Published in 1962 under title: The contemporary English novel |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Books and reading -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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English fiction -- 20th century -- Examinations -- Study guides.
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English fiction -- 20th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| LC no. |
74164727 |
| ISBN |
0500140197 |
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