Part 1 1878-1945: the turn of the novel - 1878-1900; the opening world - 1900-1915; the exciting age - 1915-1930; closing time in the gardens - 1930-1945. Part 2 1945-2001: the novel no longer novel? - 1945-1954; no, not Bloomsbury - 1954-1960; crossroads - fiction in the sixties - 1960-1969; the ice age -fiction in the seventies - 1969-1979; artists of the floating world - 1979-1989; millennial days - 1989-2001.
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