Note: His first novel, An Inch of Fortune, written circa 1951, was not published until 1980 2. "Alms for Oblivion" Novel Sequence The 10 novels cover the period 1945 to 1973 and centre on a group of upper and upper middle class characters, forming a novel sequence, if a somewhat loosely structured one. The early novels are robust satires of the English upper set of the mid-1950s, but the later tend to a more detached and philosophical tone,...
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Note: His first novel, An Inch of Fortune, written circa 1951, was not published until 1980 2. "Alms for Oblivion" Novel Sequence The 10 novels cover the period 1945 to 1973 and centre on a group of upper and upper middle class characters, forming a novel sequence, if a somewhat loosely structured one. The early novels are robust satires of the English upper set of the mid-1950s, but the later tend to a more detached and philosophical tone,...