Part One:1878-1945 3
1 The Turn of the Novel:1878-1900 3
2 The Opening World:1900-1915 66
3 The Exciting Age:1915-1930 132
4 Closing Time in the Gardens:1930-1945 194
Part Two:1945-2001 253
5 The Novel No Longer Novel?:1945-1954 253
6 No,Not Bloomsbury:1954-1960 313
7 Crossroads-Fiction in the Sixties:1960-1969 361
8 The Ice Age-Fiction in the Seventies:1969-1979 416
9 Artists of the Floating World:1979-1989 441
10 Millennial Days:1989-2001 501
The British Novel 1878-2001:A List of Major Works 543
Select Bibliography 571
The Booker Prize 1969-2000 585
Index 587