[1.] English: Max Beerbohm: a dandy -- E.F. Benson: fairy tales -- Rider Haggard: still riding -- Rudyard Kipling: a pre-Raphaelite's son -- Joseph Conrad: a moralist of exile -- T.E. Lawrence: the aesthete in war -- E.M. Forster: the private voice -- Graham Greene: disloyalties -- Evelyn Waugh: club and country -- Angus Wilson: going downhill -- Henry Green: in the echo chamber -- [2.] Americans: Henry James: birth of a hermaphrodite -- Edmund Wilson: towards revolution -- Saul Bellow: jumbos -- Mary McCarthy: a quiet American -- Flannery O'Connor: satan comes to Georgia -- [3.] Characters: Samuel Pepys: the great snail -- Jonathan Swift: the infantilism of genius -- Richard Burton: ruffian Dick -- Frederick Rolfe: the crab's shell -- [4.] Exotics: Lady Murasaki: the tale of Genji -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: snares and delusions -- Flan O'Brien: Flann v. Finn.
