The Modern Writer and His World Author:G.S. Fraser This edition of "The Modern Writer and His World" has largely been re-written and contains fresh chapters on developments in the 1950s - the new wave of novelists, "anger" in the theatre, the Movement and the Group in poetry. It is, in effect, a new book and still the only one to offer the intelligent non-specialist reader both an analysis of th... more »e major writers (and most of the minor ones) and also an overall awareness of the total literary and social scene as something from which the great, apparently isolated, figures cannot be divorced.
Covers writers such as Thomas Hardy, Yeats, James Joyce, TS Eliot, Virgina Woolf, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch and more.« less