A Sinking Island: Modern English Writers

[2], 288pp,  Quater bound in white linen under white paper-covered boards. Deckled edges.  8vo.  Top text block edge a little dust marked, previous owner's name neatly inked on front free endpaper, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In in an illustrated, laminated dust jacket, very slightly bumped at the base of the spine, small corner crease on front inner flap.  Taking 1895 - the year in which H G Wells and Joseph Conrad published their first novels and Thomas Hardy his last - as his starting point, Kenner explorers with a critical eye, the development of English literature under strong commercial pressures, visiting the works of the likes of Armold Bennett, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, D H Lawrence, Ezra Pound and D H Lawrence.