War novel prefaced the (American) first edition of 1941, Powys comments "the beginning of the fifteenth century […] saw the beginning of one of the most momentous and startling epochs of "transition" that the world has known". This was written in May 1940, and "[t]here can be no doubt" that readers of the novel would have "registered the connection between the actions of the book and the events of their own world". "Fair Stood the Wind for France" is a 1944 novel by H. E. Bates, which is concerned with a pilot of a Wellington bomber, who badly injures his arm when
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling Wakeman, John (ed.) "World Authors 1950-1970", H. W. Wilson, New York (1975). Fuchs, Miriam (ed) "Marguerite Young, Our Darling" (Dalkey Archive Press, 1994) Miss MacIntosh, My Darling Miss MacIntosh, My Darling is a novel by Marguerite Young. She has described it as "an exploration of the illusions, hallucinations, errors of judgment in individual lives, the central scene of the novel being an opium addict's paradise." The novel is one of the longest ever written. Young began writing the novel in 1947, expecting it would take two years. She worked on it daily, and did not finish until 1964. Young has