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Babbitt 1922

Sinclair Lewis 1885-1951. Also Elmer Gantry. Nobel literature prize 1930.

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Nightmare Abbey 1818

Thomas Love Peacock 1785-1866. Christopher Glowry.

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Lolly Willowes (or the Loving Huntsman) 1926

Sylvia Townsend Warner 1893-1978 (lesbian and communist). Laura Willowes in fictional Great Mop in the Chilterns. Turns into a witch. Also "The Corner That Held Them", 1948. Also about witchcraft.

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New Grub Street 1891

George Gissing 1857-1903. Features two writers Edwin Reardon and Jasper Milvain. Grub St synonymous with hack literature in 18th cent.

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At Swim - Two Birds 1939

Flann O'Brien (pseudonym of Brian O'Nolan).1911-1966 Irish. Metafiction exemplar.

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Scoop! 1938

Evelyn Waugh 1903-1966. Features William Boot. "The Daily Beast" fictional newspaper. Also Decline and Fall featuring Paul Pennyfeather. Waugh's first novel 1928.

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Decline and Fall (1928): main character Paul Pennyfeather. Theology student sent down from Oxford.

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Party Going 1939

Henry Green 1905-1973 UK. Set in a railway hotel after train is halted by fog.

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Housekeeping 1981. Gilead, 2004. Jack, 2020.

Marilynne Robinson 1943-. Features Ruth and sister Lucille.

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The Age of Innocence 1920. First woman to win what prize and in what year...

Edith Wharton 1862-1937 USA. Set in the Gilded Age (1870s); upper class New York. Newland Archer and Countess Olenska.. First woman to win Pulitzer prize for fiction 1921. Also 'Ethan Frome'.

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The Heat of the Day - WW2 spy thriller. Year?

Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973 Anglo-Irish. Relationship between Stella Rodney and Robert Keyway. 1948.

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Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont 1971

Elizabeth Taylor 1912-1975 UK. Laura Palfrey and Ludo Myers.

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Rabbit Redux 1971

John Updike 1932-2009 USA. Features Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom.

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All the King's Men 1946 (loosely Huey P. Long)

Robert Penn Warren 1905-1989 USA

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Voss 1957

Patrick White 1912-1990 Australian. Based on 19th century Prussian explorer of outback,

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Hadrian the Seventh 1904

Frederick Rolfe (pseudonym: 'Baron Corvo') 1860-1913 UK. Features George Arthur Rose invited to be Pope as Hadrian VII.

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