Preface i
Part One: 1878-1945
1 The Turn of the Novel: 1878-1900
2 The Opening World: 1900-1915
3 The Exciting Age: 1915-1930
4 Closing Time in the Gardens: 1930-1945
Part Two:1945-2001
5 The Novel No Longer Novel?: 1945-1954
6 No, Not Bloomsbury: 1954-1960
7 Crossroads - Fiction in the Sixties: 1960-1969
8 The Ice Age - Fiction in the Seventies: 1969-1978
9 Artists of the Floating World: 1979-1989
10 Millennial Days: 1989-2001
The British Novel 1878-2001: A List of Major Works
Select Bibliography
The Booker Prize 1969-2000
Index