This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. For those who came of literary age - Auden, Day... Læs mere
Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s the First World War opens like a gap in time.
Samuel Hynes considers the principal areas of conflict - politics, science, the arts and the relations between men and women - and fills them with a wide-ranging cast of... Læs mere