A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-century Novels in Britain

Surveying the development of the novel in Britain throughout the 20th century, this guide includes comentary on all the major novelists of the period, as well as a large number of the less well known. Introducing the reader to a range of novels in this way, the book also locates the work of individual authors within the evolving literary history, and the wider contexts of social, political and cultural change, which have shaped writing in the 20th century.