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"However, by the standard of the novels appearing nowadays this is a book worth reading." Ouch.
by rossdavidh 6y ago
"However, by the standard of the novels appearing nowadays this is a book worth reading."
Ouch.
- dash2 6y agoEnglish postwar fiction maybe not so good. What do we now read from the 40s or 50s? Hard to think of anything. Kingsley Amis? Late Evelyn Waugh?
- pnin 6y agoHenry Green, Graham Greene, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Anthony Powell. But the review is from just a week after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, so Orwell is referring to wartime fiction rather than postwar fiction.
- dash2 6y agoI've heard of Greene and Powell. That might be just me, of course....
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- medium_burrito 6y agoThat's true- you had to wait for prime Alfred Bester for a few years still.