TABLE OF CONTENTS 1
George Meredith 1
The Egoist 1
William Morris 10
News from Nowhere 10
Samuel Butler 21
Erewhon 22
Thomas Hardy 31
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 31
Robert Louis Stevenson 46
Treasure Island 46
Isabella Augusta Gregory 55
The Rising of the Moon 55
Oscar Wilde 69
An Ideal Husband 69
George Bernard Shaw 79
Widowers’Houses 80
George Gissing 109
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft 109
Joseph Conrad 118
An Outpost of Progress 118
Joseph Rudyard Kipling 149
The Lost Legion 150
William Butler Yeats 167
A Deep-Sworn Vow 167
Easter 1916 168
Herbert George Wells 172
Ann Veronica 172
Enoch Arnord Bennett 185
The Old Wives’Tale 185
The Forsyte Saga 211
John Galsworthy 211
Saki 230
Dusk 230
Edward Morgan Forster 238
A Passage to India 239
John Millington Synge 254
Riders to the Sea 255
Bertrand Russell 270
A Free Man’s Worship 270
William Somerset Maugham 283
Of Human Bondage 283
John Masefield 296
The Locked Chest 296
Giles Lytton Strachey 327
Queen Victoria 327
Sean O’Casey 348
I Knock at the Door 349
James Joyce 366
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 366
Virginia Woolf 379
Modern Fiction 379
David Herbert Lawrence 391
Sons and Lovers 391
Katherine Mansfield 406
Life of Ma Parker 406
Thomas Stearns Eliot 416
The Love Song of J.Alfred Pruffock 416
Aldous Leonard Huxley 424
Fairy Godmother 425
John Boynton Priestley 442
The Good Companions 443