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Hemlock and After
Av Angus Wilson
Häftad, 2008
298 kr
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On its appearance in 1952 the Times Literary Supplement called Hemlock and After 'a novel of remarkable power and literary skill which deserves to be judged by the highest standards'. Angus Wilson's first novel is concerned with the hypocrisies of middle-class society. The protagonist, Bernard …
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
Av Angus Wilson
Häftad, 2008
292 kr
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'Angus Wilson is one of the most enjoyable novelists of the 20th century ... Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) analyses a wide range of British society in a complicated plot that offers all the pleasures of detective fiction combined with a steady and humane insight.' Margaret DrabbleFirst published in …
No Laughing Matter
Av Angus Wilson
Häftad, 2008
317 kr
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A panoramic novel that stretches from 1912 to 1967 No Laughing Matter is perhaps Angus Wilson's most autobiographical novel. The novel chronicles the end of the bourgeois way of life as seen through the lives of the six Matthews children and their dysfuntional middle-class family. Their parents - …
Middle Age of Mrs Eliot
Av Angus Wilson
Häftad, 2008
292 kr
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Meg Eliot is the wife of a successful barrister and with that comes a lovely home in Westminster, cocktail parties and a round of charity committees. She is the model wife and her life is one of ease, contentment and privilege.All that changes though when she is suddenly left widowed after a …
Old Men at the Zoo
Av Angus Wilson
Häftad, 2009
272 kr
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Set in a near future (the novel was first published in 1961 and is set in the period 1970-73), this is Angus Wilson's most allegorical novel, about a doomed attempt to set up a reserve for wild animals. Simon Carter, secretary of the London Zoo, has accepted responsibility and power to the …
Bit off the Map and Other Stories
Av Angus Wilson
Häftad, 2009
219 kr
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Written in the 1950s, the eight stories collected here are brilliantly of their time: the decade of rubber plants, espresso bars and skiffle, of Suez, Teddy Boys and Angry Young Men.With compassion and deadly accuracy, Angus Wilson charts the scandals and secrets of the respectable middle classes - …
Late Call
Av Angus Wilson
Häftad, 2009
292 kr
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A compassionate portrait of an elderly - and frustrated - woman adjusting to new town life and finding a new purpose in living.Illness forces Sylvia Calvert to live with her son Harold, a headmaster in Carshall New Town. At first, Sylvia cannot adjust to the jungle of supermarkets, 10-pin bowling …
Wrong Set and Other Stories
Av Angus Wilson
Häftad, 2009
219 kr
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Angus Wilson's first volume of short stories, The Wrong Set was first published in 1949 to immense critical acclaim. The collection is a brilliantly funny exposure of the protective devices with which people seek to mask deep-laid egotism. There is the wallowing in self-adulation on the part of the …
Setting the World on Fire
Av Angus Wilson
Häftad, 2009
272 kr
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At the end of the Second World War Piers and his younger brother Tom are growing up at Tothill House, the family home with its magnificent baroque hall by Vanbrugh. Tom is the pluckier of the two, because pluck means overcoming one's fears. Piers has no such fears to overcome; he is ambitious. As …
Wild Garden
Or Speaking of Writing
Av Angus Wilson
Häftad, 2009
251 kr
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The Wild Garden is both an autobiographical essay on the creative process and a remarkable personal account of the circumstances surrounding the nervous crisis that impelled Angus Wilson to become a writer at the age of thirty-six. Examining specific incidents, characters, places and recurring …
As If By Magic
Av Angus Wilson
Häftad, 2009
289 kr
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Hamo Langmuir flies westwards round the world to examine the effects of his miraculous high-yielding rice, leaving a bleak and impotent existence behind him. His god-daughter, Alexandra Grant, travels with her magic of myths and mysticism along the hippy trail to the East. With a wry wit Angus …
Such Darling Dodos
And Other Stories
Av Angus Wilson
Häftad, 2009
219 kr
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Towards the end of Angus Wilson's life his short stories were entombed in a collected volume. By way of signifying the corpus was sadly complete that made sense but it didn't do justice to the importance and quality of his work in this medium.Three volumes of short stories were published - The …
Wrong Set and Other Stories
Av Angus Wilson
E-bok, 2009
131 kr
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Angus Wilson's first volume of short stories, The Wrong Set was first published in 1949 to immense critical acclaim. The collection is a brilliantly funny exposure of the protective devices with which people seek to mask deep-laid egotism. There is the wallowing in self-adulation on the part of the …
Bit off the Map and Other Stories
Av Angus Wilson
E-bok, 2009
148 kr
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Written in the 1950s, the eight stories collected here are brilliantly of their time: the decade of rubber plants, espresso bars and skiffle, of Suez, Teddy Boys and Angry Young Men.With compassion and deadly accuracy, Angus Wilson charts the scandals and secrets of the respectable middle classes - …
Such Darling Dodos
And Other Stories
Av Angus Wilson
E-bok, 2009
148 kr
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Towards the end of Angus Wilson's life his short stories were entombed in a collected volume. By way of signifying the corpus was sadly complete that made sense but it didn't do justice to the importance and quality of his work in this medium.Three volumes of short stories were published - The …
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
Av Angus Wilson
E-bok, 2011
197 kr
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'Angus Wilson is one of the most enjoyable novelists of the 20th century... Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) analyses a wide range of British society in a complicated plot that offers all the pleasures of detective fiction combined with a steady and humane insight.' Margaret DrabbleFirst published in …
No Laughing Matter
Av Angus Wilson
E-bok, 2012
197 kr
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A panoramic novel that stretches from 1912 to 1967 No Laughing Matter is perhaps Angus Wilson's most autobiographical novel. The novel chronicles the end of the bourgeois way of life as seen through the lives of the six Matthews children and their dysfuntional middle-class family. Their parents - …
Middle Age of Mrs Eliot
Av Angus Wilson
E-bok, 2012
197 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Meg Eliot is the wife of a successful barrister and with that comes a lovely home in Westminster, cocktail parties and a round of charity committees. She is the model wife and her life is one of ease, contentment and privilege.All that changes though when she is suddenly left widowed after a …
Hemlock and After
Av Angus Wilson
E-bok, 2012
193 kr
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On its appearance in 1952 the Times Literary Supplement called Hemlock and After 'a novel of remarkable power and literary skill which deserves to be judged by the highest standards'. Angus Wilson's first novel is concerned with the hypocrisies of middle-class society. The protagonist, Bernard …
Late Call
Av Angus Wilson
E-bok, 2013
197 kr
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A compassionate portrait of an elderly - and frustrated - woman adjusting to new town life and finding a new purpose in living.Illness forces Sylvia Calvert to live with her son Harold, a headmaster in Carshall New Town. At first, Sylvia cannot adjust to the jungle of supermarkets, 10-pin bowling …
Old Men at the Zoo
Av Angus Wilson
E-bok, 2015
177 kr
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Set in a near future (the novel was first published in 1961 and is set in the period 1970-73), this is Angus Wilson's most allegorical novel, about a doomed attempt to set up a reserve for wild animals. Simon Carter, secretary of the London Zoo, has accepted responsibility and power to the …
Wrong Set: Selected Stories (Faber Editions)
A literary master' - Ian McEwan
Av Angus Wilson
Häftad, 2026
130 kr
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'A thing to rejoice over' EVELYN WAUGH'A literary master' IAN MCEWAN'Wilson is like an agent, a brilliant snooper in some branch of intelligence, picking up his material from the scattered refugees of moral disorder' GUARDIANIllicit queer crushes on a family picnic. A nightclub singer lecturing her …
