Volume 21, Number 17 · October 31, 1974
Buyers' Market
By Frank Kermode
George Gissing: The Born Exile
by Gillian Tindall
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 295 pp., $10.00
Arnold Bennett: A Biography
by Margaret Drabble
Knopf, 397 pp., $10.00
Arnold Bennett: The Evening Standard Years
edited with an introduction by Andrew Mylett
Archon Books, 481 pp., $15.00
In the last few years there has been a welcome revival of interest in English fiction of the period between the 1880s and the outbreak of the First World War. We have had several biographies of the major figures, two more of which are noticed below. Good work of a more general kind has improved our sense of the period and of the circumstances of men of letters who lived through its changes.[1] Soon it should be possible for the right author to provide a synoptic study of the period, which is what we now need.
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