Doomsday (Annotated)

Warwick Deeping's Doomsday is a searching rural romance of postwar England, centred on a woman's attempt to choose between material security and emotional truth. Around the symbolic estate of "Doomsday," Deeping builds a drama of class aspiration, land, marriage, and moral reckoning. His prose combines Edwardian narrative amplitude with a more modern sense of disillusionment: pastoral description,...