In 1953, this novel—Hartley’s seventh—received the Heinemann Foundation Prize; it is widely regarded as Hartley’s best novel. In 1971, director Joseph Losey chose it for a film adaptation with a screenplay by the noted British dramatist Harold Pinter. The film… Read More ›
20th century British literature
Analysis of Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet
The story is set in the Egyptian city of Alexandria just before World War II, a crossroads of the ancient and the new, simultaneously primitive and cosmopolitan. The main characters include the Irish teacher and writer Darley, who narrates the… Read More ›
Analysis of Anthony Powell’s Afternoon Men
This satire of modern life was the first novel published in the long and distinguished career of Anthony Powell. The targets of Powell’s satire are artists, intellectuals, and aristocratic poseurs; his own extensive knowledge of the arts underpins the fully… Read More ›
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