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The Modern Age (The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. 7) by Boris Ford [rare books]

The Modern Age (The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. 7) by Boris Ford [rare books]

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Edited by Boris Ford and first published in 1961, The Modern Age is the seventh and final volume in The Pelican Guide to English Literature series . Spanning around 580–620 pages, the volume opens with essays on the social and intellectual backdrop of the period—covering economic change, moral uncertainty, popular culture, the mass media, and the plight of the modern writer. The central sections feature individual essays on major modern writers including Henry James, Joseph Conrad, W. B. Yeats, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Dylan Thomas, Auden, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and others. There are thematic essays on topics such as The Comedy of Ideas in twentieth-century fiction and drama, Irish literary contributions, literature of the First World War, best-selling fiction, and postwar poetry and the novel. The volume concludes with appendices of author biographies, bibliographies, and reference tools to support further reading.

Designed for informed general readers rather than specialists, this guide situates modernist literature within its historical context while offering insightful yet accessible criticism. It balances broad surveys of trends with focused analysis of major figures, making it both a literary history and an anthology of high-quality commentary .

About the Editor: 
Richard Boris Ford (1917–1998) was a British literary critic, editor, and educationist born in Simla, India. A Cambridge graduate influenced by F. R. Leavis, Ford carved out a distinctive voice by editing The Pelican Guide to English Literature (1954–1961), a seven‑volume survey that made literary criticism accessible to broad audiences . He subsequently oversaw The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain (later The Cambridge Cultural History of Britain), a nine‑volume cultural history published between 1988 and 199. Throughout his career—as an editor, educator, and occasional broadcaster—Ford championed clarity, democratic readership, and critical engagement, producing reference works that remain celebrated for their balance of scholarly insight and readability

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