Secret Sanctuary, 1923) rape (The White Gate, 1913) pollution of the water supply (Sincerity, 1912) Critical reception Despite his use of controversial themes, Deeping received little recognition as a serious writer. George Orwell, whose political beliefs were very different from Deeping's, dismissed him as being among the 'huge tribe' of writers who 'simply don't notice what is happening'. Graham Greene also criticized Deeping's work; in his book Journey Without Maps Greene includes Deeping's novels on a list of books "written without truth, without compulsion, one dull word following another." By contrast, Kingsley Amis gave some guarded praise for Deeping's work. Amis read Deeping's Sorrell and Son and initially disliked the book. However, in a later interview Amis praised Sorrell and Son, saying "Its sensibility was very crude but it delivered". Books Published posthumously Time to Heal (1952) Man in Chains (1953) The Old World Dies (1954) Caroline Terrace (1955) The Serpent's Tooth (1956) The Sword and the Cross (1957) The Lost Stories of Warwick Deeping – Volumes I – VI (2013–2018) – A total of over 3000 pages, containing over 200 short stories, novellas, and essays. These works were never published in book form and only appeared in British and American fiction magazines in the 1910s-1930s, such as The Story-Teller, The New Magazine, Cassell's Magazine of Fiction, and The Strand. Films Movies based on Deeping's novels belong, with two exceptions, to the silent era. Unrest was filmed in 1920, Fox Farm in 1922, and Doomsday in 1928. Kitty (1929), directed by Victor Saville, was one of the first British talkies (only the second half of the film had a soundtrack). Sorrell and Son (about an officer who after the First World War finds himself unemployable except in a menial capacity, but who is determined to give his son the best education possible) was filmed three times: It first appeared in 1927 as a silent movie, was remade in 1934 as a sound film, and turned into a TV mini-series in 1984. References External links Sources Works by Warwick Deeping at Project Gutenberg of Australia Other A 2002 essay by Mary Grover (Sheffield Hallam University), from The Literary Encyclopedia WarwickDeeping.com George Davidson 'Warwick' Deeping, the Master of the early 20th Century Romance, 1877 births 1950 deaths Military personnel from Southend-on-Sea 20th-century British novelists People from Southend-on-Sea People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge British Army personnel