ABSTRACT
IN this and the following chapters I have selected for more detailed treatment five novelists. I admit freely that others have achieved great success in the novel in the period and on this I have already commented. At the same time I would submit, following the argument I have already developed, that these are the five writers who are most alive to the most profound problem of their time, and whose work either directly through comment and discussion as with Huxley or Lawrence, or indirectly as in Joyce or Virginia Woolf is an image of the age.
