1951 The Novel 1940-1950 PH Newby Publ. British Council Literary Study Post-War

PH Newby's short critical survey of the novel as art-form and social phenomenon in the five-year period from 1945 to the beginning of 1950 includes a consideration of the effects of the war upon the writings of fiction, including the short story, and chapters dealing with tradition and experiments, with satire and with character and situation. Special attention is focused on authors whose names jump readily to mind; there is also a shrewd assessment of the work of Mr Newby's colleagues among the leading younger novelists. Elizabeth Bowen, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Henry Green, Graham Greene, Joyce Cary, 1951 The Novel 1940-1950 PH Newby Publ. British Council Literary Study Post-War Britain Novelists WW2 British Author