In the Victorian trilogy, Dr. Wingfield – Stratford presented the history of the eighty years preceding the war as a vast tragedy working inevitably to a climax in the partial suicide of civilization. In this book, we see the unfolding of an even vaster drama in which we ourselves are the actors, and on whose last act the curtain mat even now be rising.The period dealt with is from 1918 to the general strike of 1926. It opens with delirious ...
