| Book | The Way We Live Now |
| Poetry by | John Cornford, W. H. Auden, Federico García Lorca, David Gascoyne, Georg Anders, Demetrios Capetanakis, Roy Fuller, Terence Tiller, Louis MacNeice, Norman Nicholson, Stephen Spender, Edith Sitwell, John Lehmann, Diana Witherby, Norman Cameron, A.S.J. Tessimond, Alan Ross, Henry Reed, Earle Birney, Laurie Lee, Denys L. Jones, Douglas Newton, Boris Pasternak, Odysseus Elytis, Iain Scott-Kilvert, Bernard Spencer, Robert Pagan, Michael Hamburger, John Short (2), E.J. Scovell, James Michie, George Barker |
| Editor | John Lehmann |
| Copyright Holder (Introduction/Prologue) | John Lehmann |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Contributing Writer | John Sommerfield, G. W. Stonier, Graham Greene, Keith Vaughan, William Chappell, Henry Green, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Jiří Mucha, Denis Glover, Alun Lewis, Louis Clamorgan, R.D. Marshall, Jack Eric Morpurgo, Jocelyn Brooke, George Orwell, André Chamson, Christopher Isherwood, Rosamond Lehmann, Frank Sargeson, Yuri Olyesha, William Sansom, Jean-Paul Sartre, Elizabeth Bowen, Denton Welch, James Farl Powers, Louis Guilloux, Paul Bowles, Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, Walter Allen, Edwin Muir, David Magarshack, John Clive Hall, John Wain |
| Typeset by | Rowland Typesetting Ltd |
| Printed and Bound by | Cox & Wyman Ltd |
| Translated by | Ewald Osers, Marjorie Mack, Joan Llus Gili i Serra, Stephen Spender, John Lehmann, George Reavey, Nanos Valaoritis, John Rodker, Anthony Wolfe |
| Periodical Title | The Penguin New Writing |
| Associate Editor | Roy Fuller |
| Copyright Holder (Selection) | John Lehmann |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | UK |
| Copyright | 1985 |
| Pages / Font | 496 pages / Linotron Sabon |
| ISBN | 0-14-007484-8 |
| Barcode | 9 780140 074840 |
| Barcode (EAN) | 90000 |
| Price | U.K. £4.95 |
| Price | AUST. $9.95 (recommended) |
| Price | N.Z. $11.95 |
| Price | CAN. $12.95 |
| Chapters | Introduction
Select Biographical Glossary
I THE PANORAMA OF WAR
II THE POETS
III STORIES, MEMOIRS, IMPRESSIONS
IV THE CRITICAL ESTIMATE |
| Notes | "A unique anthology of the best stories, essays, memoirs and poems selected from The Penguin New Writing -
a series which published all that was new, exciting and creative in an historic decade" |