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Twentieth-Century English Literature 1901-1960
by Ward, A. C
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Methuen,. Hardback. 239pp. Original published in 1928 and much revised to keep up to date, this is a reprint of the 1964 edition ending with 1960. A fascinating survey of the writers regarded as important at the time, with chapters on H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Rupert Brooke, Max Beerbohm, etc. Women novelists are dealt with in just one chapter (briefly dealing with May Sinclair, Rose Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy L. Sayers, Elizabeth Bowen, Rosamund Lehman). Writers like Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell get a brief mention under 'newcomers'. Other chapters on themes include detective fiction (which focuses on the male crime writers), Irish theatre, the repertory movement, Georgian poetry, the new metaphysicals, etc. Old, dry tape marks to the endpapers else very clean and neat. Very good copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. 1966.
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- Bookseller
- C L Hawley
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23001
- Title
- Twentieth-Century English Literature 1901-1960
- Author
- Ward, A. C
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen,
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- A. C. Ward,Literary criticism,H. G. Wells,Arnold Bennett,John , Galsworthy,Joseph Conrad,George Bernard Shaw,J. M. Barrie,Thomas , Hardy,Rupert Brooke,Max Beerbohm,Women novelists,Women writers,May , Sinclair,Rose Macaulay,Virginia Woolf,Katherine Mansfie
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