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Innovators of the Novel, XX c. The modernity of the English Novel appeared in the Period between the two wars. It was thanks to a group of writers so important as D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Aldous Huxley. Saying this words, I do not pretend to say that the productivity of Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells and E.M. Forster was relevant during their respective ages but It should face the facts that the group of writers between the two wars is the one who stablished the bases of the new forms of Novel. These new forms were, for example: the Bergsoniana idea of the passing of the time, the new concept of the concatenation of the conscience derived from William James, and in which David Daiches considers the break of the general sense of the meaning, the loss which involve for the present-day writer the fact that the nowadays men´s beliefs do not have the objective validity than the ones Jane Austin dealt with her contemporarys. The period of time in which these Novelists appeared was very unstable. After a very dificult peace, it appeared a descent of the ideals which derived in a economical recession in the end of the twenties. After that it emerged the European Dictatorships, which perturved the world conscience. The individualism, the frivolity, the investigator and scientific criticism of this period were manifested in the works of Lawrence, Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley, and it could also be added the narrations of George Orwell.