The turn of the novel, 1878-1900; the opening world, 1900-1915; the exciting age, 1915-1930; closing time in the gardens, 1930-1945; the novel no longer novel, 1945-1960; the sixties and after, 1960-1979; artists of the floating world, 1979 to the present; coda - an afterword from the nineties; the British novel since 1876 - a list of major works.