The Survival of the Novel: British Fiction in the Later Twentieth Century

First printing. The first part of the book deals with five novelists--John Fowles, Iris Murdoch, Angus Wilson, Kingsley Amis, and Anthony Powell--whose experimental attitude to tradition is characteristic of modern British fiction. Part Two looks at William Golding's Lord of the Flies and L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between. ix, i , 188 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..