This book is intended for students of English literature at A-level and above; general readers interested in a complete history of literature from Middle English to the earlier twentieth century.

Writers of the Early Twentieth Century: Hardy to Lawrence (Oxford History of English Literature) (VOLUME XV)

Literature & Fiction

STEWART, J.I.M.

British & Irish

Clarendon Press

This book is about the works and lives of 8 authors: Hardy, James, Shaw, Conrad, Kipling, Yeats, Joyce and Lawrence. It is not an anthology.

Writers of the Early Twentieth Century (Oxford History of English Literature)

Oxford University Press

Art is very much part of Rupert Craine's life. He is a banker and country squire, but also a connoisseur and collector of art. His beautiful and wealthy wife, Jill, is the widow of John Arnander, an artist of genius killed in Italy in World War II. The Craines live happily on a comfortable country estate with Jill's twelve- and eleven-year-old sons by Arnander and their own two young children. As Jill remarks, an almost Edwardian order reigns in the household. "Of course," she says, "none of it may last." That afternoon she has received a cable from an old acquaintance, an Italian marchesa. It seems that Arnander fathered an illegitimate son whom the archesa has been looking after. She can no longer do so and wants Jill to come and arrange the boy's future. The Crains hasten to Italy, Rupert going along to the preliminary interview with the marchesa, as he is suspicous that there may not really be an Arnander child, that this is a ruse to extract money. The truth revealed to him by the marchesa is shattering, and the quintessentially civilized Craines find themselves plunged into an increasingly bizarre drama.

The Use of Riches (Phoenix Fiction)

University of Chicago Press

The final volume in the ‘A Staircase in Surrey’ quintet. Duncan Pattullo is coming to the end of his term as ‘narrator’ and is thinking of re-marrying, although his former wife continues to cause difficulties. His intended is also providing gossip for the college, but that is as nothing compared to the scandal caused by Watershute, an eminent nuclear physicist. His misdemeanours range from abandoning his family and conducting an affair in Venice, to being drunk at High Table. However, things get very serious when he appears to be involved in activities that might amount to treason. An interesting and convoluted plot, which is a fitting end to this acclaimed series, is carried forward with J.I.M. Stewart’s hallmark skill and wit. Full Term can be read in order, or as a standalone novel.

Full term: A novel (His A staircase in Surrey)

Literary

W.W.Norton

The Feltons are a family with a long lineage stretching back beyond the Norman Conquest. They now have a daughter, Ianthe, but prior to her birth Tobias, or Toby, was fostered and then adopted as their heir after he had miraculously survived the sinking of a refugee ship by a German U-Boat. Then, someone who is clearly Toby’s twin turns up as an under-gardener. He had been fostered by a Scottish couple, now dead. There is now general and disturbed confusion on everyone’s part – including the boys themselves. Stewart explores magnificently the nature of the complicated relationships, including those from outside of the family such as Toby’s lover; the irony of the situation; and the many ramifications of class and culture in the absurd situation the characters find themselves.

Andrew and Tobias

Norton

A new year at Helmingham, an English public school, witnesses an ambiguous relationship between the son of a man sentenced for embezzlement and the grandson of the presiding judge

An Open Prison: A Novel

Contemporary

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A little boy decides to give up cheating at games, Tom Patchett discovers that he was adopted, and the implications of a dyslexia epidemic at Oxford are a few of the thematic stories in this collection based on life's unpredictability

Parlour 4 and Other Stories

Offers a humorous, colorful account of an Oxford academic's coexistence with his alter ego, the author of detective novels, and provides an intimate look at his circle of Oxford-bred literary figures and friends

Myself and Michael Innes: A Memoir

First U.S. edition. "Four carefully written subtle stories that brush the supernatural lightly. 'Cucumber Sandwiches,' the shortest of the stories, is a Henry Jamesian story." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-283. Stewart is well- known for his crime fiction written under the pen name "Michael Innes."

Cucumber sandwiches, and other stories

Bannerman is a schoolmaster on his way to Florence to do some research. On the plane, he meets a recent pupil, Avery Brenton, who is travelling to see his divorced father. However, Avery is young and naïve and is being unwittingly used by his domineering mother. Bannerman finds himself being drawn into matters. Avery’s father is working on a lifetime study of Italian art and is not that pleased to see him.  Enter Mrs Mountpatrick, a friend of Avery’s mother, along with another youth who is helping his father. Very soon, a delightfully entangled and complex situation develops, only to be exacerbated by the arrival of Avery’s mother, a dominatrix who uses sex-appeal and a natural upper class manner to exert her will.  The tale is told by Bannerman as narrator and is full of suspense to delight the reader right up to the unexpected end.

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