“The variety of the subjects and the lack of critical uniformity combine to make a stimulating collection for the student and littérateur.”—The Booklist.“An introduction to those contemporary British Novelists who are most generally regarded as promising…The essays are short and, for the most part, discursive but they are very well-written.” — Choice. “Although Contemporary British Novelists has a scholarly tone and an air of academic enclosure, there is much of value to the general reader in the acute perceptive insights of well-trained minds presenting widely divergent views and reactions to fairly well-known novels.”—The Indianapolis News.
