Title: A reader's guide to the contemporary English novel
Authors: Karl, Frederick Robert, 1927-
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year: 1972
Subjects: English fiction History and criticism Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Books and reading Handbooks, manuals, etc.; English fiction Examinations Study guides.
Contents: The contemporary English novel -- Waiting for Becket: quest and request -- Lawrence Durrell: physical and metaphysical love -- The politics of conscience: the novels of C.P. Snow -- Graham Greene's demonical heroes -- The world of Elizabeth Bowen -- Joyce Cary: the moralist as novelist -- George Orwell: the White man's burden -- The world of Evelyn Waugh: the normally insane -- Normality defined: the novels of Henry Green -- The intimate world of Ivy Compton-Burnett -- The Angries: is there a Protestant in the house? -- The still comic music of humanity: the novels of Anthony Powell, Angus Wilson, and Nigel Dennis -- The novel as moral allegory: the fiction of William Golding, Iris Murdoch, Rex Warner, and P.H. Newby -- Composite -- Major work in the Sixties: Doris Lessing and Anthony Powell -- Postscript: 1960-1970. Nigel Dennis, Lawrence Durrell, William Golding, Graham Greene, Iris Murdoch, Alan Sillitoe, C.P. Snow, Muriel Spark, Angus Wilson, John Fowles, Anthony Burgess.