Preface -- I. Introduction -- 2. Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady -- 3. Samuel Butler: The Way of All Flesh -- 4. Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles -- PART II: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY--THE FIRST QUARTER: I. Introduction -- 2. Joseph Conrad: Nostromo -- 3. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf -- 4. D.H. Lawrence: The Rainbow -- 5: James Joyce: Ulysses -- 6. E.M. Forester: A Passage to India -- PART III: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY--THE SECOND QUARTER: Introduction -- Aldous Huxley: Point Counter Point -- Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter -- Joyce Cary: Mister Johnson -- Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Family and a Fortune -- Henry Green: Party Going -- Notes and References -- Reading List -- Index.