The Ulster playwright and critic St. John Ervine sizes up the writers of the generation above him, in alphabetical order: AE, Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton, John Galsworthy, George Moore, Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells and others. He mixes personal recollection with sharp, often amusing criticism, down to Galsworthy’s odd turns of phrase.
Lively literary gossip and judgment from the early 1920s, for anyone who reads the Edwardians. Download the free EPUB.