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The Undercover Revolution: How Fiction Changed Britain (Book/ Paperback)

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How Fiction Changed Britain!

Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain saw a mega-change in reading habits. For the first time fiction took the primary place in book publishing, and the medium was taken up by brilliant and entertaining authors with an agenda for a brave new world . Such men as Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw were the opinion-makers for coming generations. With the next phase of Victorian fiction , wrote G. K. Chesterton, we enter a new world; the later, more revolutionary, more continental, freer but in some ways weaker world in which we live today.

Chesterton did not live to see the full consequences of the change but W. R. Inge predicted what was coming when he wrote:

No God. No country. No family. Refusal to serve in war. Free love. More play. Less work. No punishments. Go as you please. It is difficult to imagine any programme which, if carried out, would be more utterly ruinous to a country situated as Great Britain is today.

FROM THE PREFACE, by Iain Murray, "My theme - the influence of fiction on society - is worthy of much more expansion than I have given to it here. I hope I have said enough to alert others to the importance of what is too commonly overlooked."

"Iain Murray has put his finger on the turning point that sent western culture down the path to immorality. It is a persuasive explanation that we need to hear." John MacArthur, Pastor/Teacher, Grace Community Church, Sun Valley, California, USA

About the Author(s)

Iain Hamish Murray was born to Scottish parents in Lancashire, England April 19,1931. He studied at King William's College on the Isle of Man, and then at the University of Durham. He was converted when he was seventeen years old and entered the Christian ministry in 1955, in his twenties. He was an assistant to Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones at the Westminster Chapel for three years(1956-59), and during those years his admiration for Lloyd-Jones increased. Together with Jack Cullum, he founded The Banner of Truth Trust, which began with the Banner of Truth Magazine in 1955, and which he edited until 1987. The Trust, intended to supply out of print Reformed and Puritan authors for Britain, grew to a ministry with a far-reaching and lasting impact in many countries. He was director of Banner of Truth until 1996.