Twentieth-Century Attitudes Literary Powers

Allen explores the lives and work of the last century's most brilliant and eccentric literary talents.

Brooke Allen's critical writing appears frequently in the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, the Hudson Review, and the New Leader. She lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn, New York

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
The Voice of a New Century: Colette	p. 3
A Socialist Rivalry: H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw	p. 21
Edith Wharton and the Rejection of Tradition	p. 31
The Cult of Victimhood: Virginia Woolf and Modern Feminism	p. 46
The Elusive Henry Green	p. 62
Evelyn Waugh--with All the Warts	p. 76
The Mitford Girls	p. 89
Sylvia Townsend Warner	p. 108
Brilliant Frivolity: Christopher Isherwood's Diaries	p. 124
The Many Worlds of Angus Wilson	p. 131
Carson McCullers: The Story of an Emotional Vampire	p. 147
Backstage at The New Yorker	p. 155
Iris Murdoch, Drawing-room Philosopher	p. 171
The Better James Baldwin	p. 183
Saul Bellow on Top	p. 198
Cockeyed Optimist: Grace Paley and the Eternal Feminine	p. 211
John Barth: Scheherazade's Exhaustion	p. 216
Rohinton Mistry: A Butterfly on the Dung Heap	p. 222
Index	p. 230
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