Point Counter Point
Critique • Quotes
First editionFirst publication
1928
Literary form
Novel
Genres
Literary
Writing language
English
Author's country
England
Length
Approx. 154,000 words
Notable lines
"You won't be late? There was anxiety in Marjorie Carling's voice, there was something like entreaty.
— First lines
"Mystical experience and aestheticism. The fornicator's hatred of life in a new form."
"What shall I do when I'm old?" she suddenly asked.
"Why not die?" suggested Spandrell with his mouth full of bread and Strasbourg goose liver.
I disbelieve in the adequacy of any scientific or philosophical theory, any abstract moral principle, but on scientific, philosophical, and abstract-moral grounds.
The bathroom was drenched with their splashings. Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.
— Last lines
Critique • Quotes
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