The Will to Believe: Novelists of the Nineteen-thirties"A study of six novelists of the nineteen-thirties : Edward Upward, Rex Warner, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Christopher Isherwood, and George Orwell." -- Preface. |
Contents
A Common Background | 1 |
Fiction and Belief | 18 |
Edward Upward and Rex Warner | 37 |
Copyright | |
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acceptance artist Aspidistra assertion attempt attitude attraction Auden group aware Berlin novels Beste-Chetwynde Black Mischief Brideshead Revisited Brighton Rock Catholic Catholicism character Christopher Isherwood Church commitment Communism Communist consciousness contemporary conventional Decline and Fall defined describes desire Edward Upward emotional Essays Evelyn Waugh evil existence Extracts faith feel fiction function George Goodbye to Berlin Graham Greene Greene and Waugh Greene's Handful of Dust hero hero's Ibid implications individual individual's instinctive intellectual Journey kind Left Review left-wing Lions and Shadows literary Marxism means ment middle-class modern narrator Norris Changes Trains notion novelists offer oppressive Orwell Orwell's permission Pinkie Pinkie's predicament quest reality regarded relationship religion religious revolutionary action revolutionary socialism Rex Warner Rumour at Nightfall schoolboy schooldays seemed sense significance simply social revolution society spiritual superficial thirties tion Tony Last understanding Upward and Warner values Vedanta Warner and Upward Wild Goose Chase William writers
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