Introduction: Picnic Time, Prime Time, Story Time; 1. ‘All Those Figures’: Joseph Conrad and the Maritimes; 2. ‘Wheels within Wheels’: D.H. Lawrence, Industrial Time and War Time; 3. Times in the Mind: Modernism in the 1920s; 4. Not Like Old Times: the 1930s to Mid-Century; 5. ‘Time is Over’: Postmodern Times; Conclusion: Millennial Times, Perennial Times.