Great Writers of the Twentieth Century

Synopsis: Profiles of 25 prominent 20th-century novelists, using interviews with friends, relatives and experts along with archive footage. Subjects of individual programmes are: D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, F Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, William Burroughs, Bertolt Brecht, George Orwell, Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas, H G Wells, Raymond Chandler, Robert Graves, Angela Carter, James Baldwin, Raymond Carver, Normal Mailer, William Golding, V S Naipaul, Vladimir Nabokov, Evelyn Waugh, Aldous Huxley, Primo Levi, E M Forster.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of production: 1997
Notes: Apparently broadcast only on an Australian digital channel.
Subjects: English language and literature
Keywords: Baldwin, James; Brecht, Bertolt (1898-1956); Burroughs, William S; Carter, Angela; Carver, Raymond; Chandler, Raymond; Fitzgerald, F Scott; Forster, E M; Golding, William; Graves, Robert; Greene, Graham; Hemingway, Ernest; Huxley, Aldous; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Lawrence, D H; Levi, Primo; Mailer, Norman; Nabokov, Vladimir; Naipaul, V S; novelists; Orwell, George; Thomas, Dylan; Waugh, Evelyn; Wells, H G; Woolf, Virginia; writers

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