Preface i Part One: 1878-1945 1 The Turn of the Novel: 1878-1900 2 The Opening World: 1900-1915 3 The Exciting Age: 1915-1930 4 Closing Time in the Gardens: 1930-1945 Part Two:1945-2001 5 The Novel No Longer Novel?: 1945-1954 6 No, Not Bloomsbury: 1954-1960 7 Crossroads - Fiction in the Sixties: 1960-1969 8 The Ice Age - Fiction in the Seventies: 1969-1978 9 Artists of the Floating World: 1979-1989 10 Millennial Days: 1989-2001 The British Novel 1878-2001: A List of Major Works Select Bibliography The Booker Prize 1969-2000 Index