International records / Internet Archive

The Present

618 pages ; 19 cm Social and cultural setting - The literary scene - George Orwell - Patrick White - Doris Lessing - Iris Murdoch Includes index General introduction / Boris Ford -- Part I: The Social and cultural setting / Krishnan Kumar -- Part II: The literary scene / John Holloway -- Part III: The fatalism of George Orwell / D.S. Savage -- Patrick White / John Holloway -- Samuel Beckett: the need to fail / Gabriel Josipovici -- F.R. Leavis and 'English' / Geoffrey Strickland -- Anthony Powell and Angus Wilson / Graham Martin -- Welsh bards in hard times: Dylan Thomas and R.S. Thomas / C.B.…