I The Contemporary English Novel II Waiting for Beckett: Quest and Re-Quest III Lawrence Durrell: Physical and Metaphysical Love IV The Politics of Conscience: The Novels C. P. Snow V Graham Greene''s Demonical Heroes VI The World of Elizabeth Bowen VII Joyce Cary: The Moralist as Novelist VIII George Orwell: The White Man''s Burden IX The World of Evelyn Waugh: The Normally Insane X Normality Defined: The Novels of Henry Green XI The Intimate World of Ivy Compton-Burnett XII The Angries: Is There a Protestant in the House? XIII The Still Comic Music of Humanity: The Novels of Anthony Powell, Angus Wilson, and Nigel Dennis XIV The Novel as Moral Allegory: The Fiction of William Golding, Iris Murdoch, Rex Warner, and P.H. Newby XV Composite Afterword Acknowledgments Index