British Novelists, 1930-1959

Writing during one of the most volatile periods in British history — a time that encompassed a worldwide economic depression, World War II, and the economic and political decline of the British Empire — the novelists featured in this volume produced some of the most memorable fiction in the history of British literature. Novelists of the period 1930-1959 held true to the path established by such writers as Austen, Dickens, Lawrence and Conrad. They displayed the particularly British charact...