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a tetralogy, psychological result of the war on the participants and on society.
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Human relationships and complexity of experience
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One of the most complex novels. Not only 1 plot but many plots!! Uses a large cast of characters. Views life from different angles.
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The Auden Group or the Auden Generation is the name given to a group of British and Irish writers active in the 1930s that included W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood, and sometimes Edward Upward and Rex Warner. They were sometimes called simply the Thirties poets.
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The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England,Its more regular members (many of them academics at the University) included J. R. R. "Tollers" Tolkien, C. S. "Jack" Lewis, Owen Barfield and others.The Inklings were literary enthusiasts who praised the value of narrative in fiction, and encouraged the writing of fantasy.
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Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley, and published in 1932. Set in London in the year 2540, the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that are combined to profoundly change society.
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Makes fun of the rural life at the time and is set in the future
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It's a Battlefield is an early novel by Graham Greene, first published in 1934. Graham Greene later described it as his "first overtly political novel".
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W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood co-authored a verse drama, which was incredibly successful
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Eyeless in Gaza is a novel of ideas by Aldous Huxley, published in 1936. This semiautobiographical novel criticizes the dearth of spiritual values in contemporary society.
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Brighton Rock, novel of sin and redemption by Graham Greene, published in 1938.
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Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf. It was published shortly after her death in 1941.
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● War effort and conscience
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● The “fall” of Russia
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● Life during WW2
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● Issues with publishing
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● The issue of pity
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● Ideologies
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● Forming the idea
● Influences
