1. Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
The West disliked communism and viewed it as a dishonest and despicable system, one, which was completely incompatible with capitalism. ... Behind that line lie all the states of Central and Eastern Europe. ... Speeches like these did cause nervousness during the Cold War, instead of only distrusting countries indirectly, like in World War II; the West was clearly saying that it did not trust the East. ...
Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write ...