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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Debunking Victorianism
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, 1903
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey, 1918
War 1 – Warnings and Reality
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, 1903, and The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, 1915
The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, 1908, The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, 1914, and The Great Illusion by Norman Angell, 1910
The Bickersteth Diaries, 1914–18, edited by John Bickersteth, and Private Lord Crawford’s Great War Diaries edited by Christopher Arnander
War 2 – Warnings and Reality
Challenge to Death edited by Storm Jameson, 1934, and Guilty Men by ‘Cato’, 1940
My Early Life by Winston S Churchill, 1930
Flare Path by Terence Rattigan, 1942, Few Eggs and No Oranges: The Diaries of Vere Hodgson, 1940–45, and Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Her Son John Julius Norwich, 1939–52
Cold War
Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 1954, and On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 1957
The Dead, The Dying and The Damned by D. J. Hollands, 1956
Imperialist Complexities
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 1902
Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall, 1905, and Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell, 1908
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster, 1924 and Altogether by W. Somerset Maugham, 1931
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen, 1929
Remote People by Evelyn Waugh, 1931, and So Rough a Wind: The Kenya Memoirs of Sir Michael Blundell, 1964
Provincial Life
Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett, 1902, The Condition of England by C. F. G. Masterman, 1909, and The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressall, 1914
Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood, 1933, and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe, 1958
Room at the Top by John Braine, 1957 and This Sporting Life by David Storey, 1960
Early Feminism
Suffragette Sally by Gertrude Colmore, 1911, Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, 1933, and A Life’s Work by Margaret Bondfield, 1948
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, 1929, and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf, 1938
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 1962
Sex and Relationships
Married Love by Marie Stopes, 1918, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence, 1928
Maurice by E. M. Forster, 1914, The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall, 1928, and The Charioteer by Mary Renault, 1953
Race and Immigration
The Foundations of the Nineteenth-Century by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, 1911, and The Alien Corn by W. Somerset Maugham, 1934
The Story of Art by Ernst Gombrich, 1950, and The Buildings of England by Nikolaus Pevsner, 1951–71
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon, 1956, City of Spades by Colin MacInnes, 1957, and Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes, 1959
Diverse Perspectives
The Doctor’s Dilemma, 1906, to which is linked the Preface on Doctors, 1911, by George Bernard Shaw, and The Citadel by A. J. Cronin, 1937
The Green Hat by Michael Arlen, 1924, and The Vortex by Noël Coward, 1924
The Old School edited by Graham Greene, 1934
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, 1938, and Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 1945
Strangers and Brothers by C. P. Snow, 1940–70, and The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution by C. P. Snow, 1959
A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David, 1950
Conclusion
The Economic Consequences of the Peace by J. M. Keynes, 1919, and The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by J. M. Keynes, 1936
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, 1938, Animal Farm by George Orwell, 1945, and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, 1949
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
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