有两个作家在一战前就为人所知,后来名声大震,他们是休·沃波尔(1884—1941)和康普顿·麦肯齐(1883—1972),他们都受到了亨利·詹姆斯的激励。《佩林先生和特雷尔》(1911)展现了两名中学校长之间的仇恨,使人们对沃波尔的创作天赋刮目相看。《道路险恶》(1913)刻画了一个中产阶级男孩的青春与发展,引起了人们对麦肯齐的注意。麦肯齐有着高超的驾驭语言的能力,他的幽默感以及他的表述技巧是他小说创作取得一系列成功的基础。但他写的反映他那个时代的调查性小说《爱的风来自四方》(1937—1915)长达六卷,似乎显得重复了一些。沃波尔的野心也促使他向事业挑战,最后沃波尔写了一部关于兰克的一个家庭的家世的长篇小说,其时间跨度达一百多年。《罗格》(1930)是赫里斯世家的第一卷。 马克兹可能声称过对娱乐的追求和通过文学创作来进行消遣并不算是对一个作家才能的辱没。P·G·沃德豪斯(1881—1975)也许正证明了这一点。他的幽默小说里由不同人物组成的可笑的场合给整个英国文学的幽默讽刺锦上添花。伯蒂·伍斯特和他的仆役长吉夫斯,史密斯和他的姑妈安格斯以及许多无所事事的绅士和他们的追随者,他用纯朴的语言风格对达官贵人进行讽刺,适合低层人民的口味,每个戏剧性角色都是在特设的荒诞情境中反映人物 Two writers were known before the First World War and were later remembered for great feng shui, Hugh Walpoon (1884-1941) and Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972), both of whom were Henry James’s motivation. Mr. Palin and Traylor (1911) show the hatred between two middle school principals, giving people a glimpse of Waugh’s creative talents. “The Sinister Road” (1913) portrays the youth and development of a middle-class boy and draws attention to McKenzie. Mackenzie has a superb ability to control the language, his sense of humor and his expression skills is the success of his novels based on a series of successful. However, the six volumes he wrote reflecting his era’s investigative novel Love of the Wind from the Quartet (1937-1915) seem to be duplicates. Walpole’s ambitions also prompted him to challenge his career, and finally Walpole wrote a novel about the family life of a family of Ranc, spanning over a hundred years. Rogge (1930) is the first volume of the Helris family. Marks may claim that pursuing entertainment and recreating it through literary creation are not insulting to a writer’s ability. This may be justified perhaps by PG Wardhouse (1881-1975). The ridiculous occasions of different characters in his comic books add even more humor to the English literature as a whole. Bertie Worcester and his servant, Gibbons, Smith and his aunt Angus, and many idle gentlemen and their followers, he satirical the dignitaries in simple language and suit the tastes of the lower classes , Each dramatic character reflects a character in an ad hoc absurd situation