Twentieth-Century Essays: The Penguin Book of

THE PENGUIN BOOK OF
Twentieth-Century Essays
Selected, with a Foreword and Notes by IAN HAMILTON
ID
ALLEN LANE THE PENGUIN PRESS
Contents
Acknowledgements vii Foreword xi G. K CHESTERTON Woman 1 MAURICE BARING King Lear's Daughter 6 EDMUND BLUNDEN The Somme Still Flows 10 VIRGINIA WOOLF How it Strikes a Contemporary 15 T. s. ELIOT Tradition and the Individual Talent 24 MAX BEERBOHM Laughter 32 D. H. LAWRENCE Why the Novel Matters 43 DESMOND MACCARTHY Literary Booms 49 ALDOUS HUXLEY Sermons in Cats 53 A. p. HERBERT About Bathrooms 59 LYTTON STRACHEY The Sad Story of Dr Colbatch 63 H. L. MENCKEN Reflections on Journalism 68 F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The Crack-Up 73 JAMES THURBER The Secret Life of James Thurber 88 MARTHA GELLHORN Memory 94 CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD The Head of a Leader 100 GEORGE ORWELL England Your England 108 w. H. AUDEN The Guilty Vicarage 132 MARY MCCARTHY My Confession 144 F. R. LEAVIS Mass Civilization and Minority Culture 169 EUDORA WELTY The Little Store 192 GRAHAM GREENE The Lost Childhood 200
PAUL FUSSELL My War EDMUND WILSON 206
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Foreword and Notes Copyright < Q Ian Hamilton, 1999 1 he moral right of the author has been asserted All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book Set in 10.75/]}.75 pt Monotype Sabon Typeset by Rowland Phototypesetting Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Printed and bound in Great Britain by The Bath Press, Bath A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-713-99Z68-9
Philoctetes: The Wound and the Bow 221 HANNAH ARENDT The Concentration Camps 237 CYRIL CONNOLLY An American in London 258 RANDALL JARRELL The Obscurity of the Poet 263 v. s. NAIPAUL In the Middle of the Journey 280 E. B. WHITE The Ring of Time 286
CONTENTS
DAN JACOBSON
NANCY MITFORD
Time of Arrival 294 The English Aristocracy 320 JAMES BALDWIN Notes of a Native Son 333 NORMAN MAILER The White Negro 354 ARTHUR KOESTLER Return Trip to Nirvana 376 GORE VIDAL The Holy Family 387 ELIZABETH HARDWICK The Oswald Family 406 TOM WOLFE These Radical Chic Evenings 413 PHILIP ROTH My Baseball Years 432 PHILIP LARKIN The Pleasure Principle 437 KINGSLEY AMIS Why Are You Telling Me All This? 441 JOAN DIDION Goodbye to All That 445 JOHN UPDIKE The Bankrupt Man 455 A. ALVAREZ Risk 458 JONATHAN RABAN Living on Capital 468 KARL MILLER Are You Distraining Me? 489 JOHN CAREY Down With Dons 502 MARTIN AMIS Phantom of the Opera: the Republicans in 1988 516 CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS On Not Knowing the Half of It: My Jewish Self 528 JULIAN BARNES Mrs Thatcher Remembers 543
Acknowledgements
For permission to publish copyright material in this book grateful acknowledgement is made to the following: A. Alvarez: 'Risk' from GQ Magazine (February 1991), 1991 Al Alvarez, reprinted by permission of Gillon Aitken Associates; Kingsley Amis: 'Why Are You Telling Me All This?' from the Spectator (23 August 1986), 1986 Kingsley Amis, reprinted by kind permission of Jonathan Clowes Ltd, London, on behalf of the Literary Estate of Sir Kingsley Amis; Martin Amis: 'Phantom of the Opera: the Republicans in 1988' from Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions (Jonathan Cape, 1993), reprinted by permission of Random House UK Ltd; Hannah Arendt: 'The Concentration Camps' from Partisan Review, Vol. XV, No. 7 (1948), reprinted by permission of Hannah Arendt Bluecher Literary Trust; W. H. Auden: 'The Guilty Vicarage' from The Dyer's Hand (Faber 6c Faber, 1963), reprinted by permission of the publisher; Maurice Baring: 'King Lear's Daughter' from The Best of Modern Humour, edited by Mordecai Richler (Allen Lane, 1983), reprinted by permission of A. P. Watt Ltd on behalf of The Trustees of Maurice Baring Will Trust; Julian Barnes: 'Mrs Thatcher Remembers' from Letters from London (Picador, 1995), reprinted by permission of Macmillan Ltd and The Peters Fraser & Dunlop Group Ltd; Max Beerbohm: 'Laughter' from And Even Now (Heinemann, 1920), reprinted by kind permission of Sir Rupert Hart-Davis; Edmund Blunden: 'The Somme Still Flows' from Undertones of War (CobdenSanderson, 1928), reprinted by permission of The Peters Fraser & Dunlop Group Ltd; John Carey: 'Down With Dons' from Original Copy: Selected Reviews and Journalism (Faber 6c Faber, 1987), reprinted by permission of the author; G. K. Chesterton: 'Woman' from The Bodley Head C K. Chesterton, edited by P. J. Kavanagh (Bodley Head, 1985), reprinted by permission of A. P. Watt Ltd on behalf of The Royal Literary Fund; Joan Didion: 'Goodbye to All That' from Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Andre Deutsch, 1968), reprinted by permission of

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