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Wilson, a.
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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...
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Angus Wilson
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Wilson, a.
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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...
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Wilson, a.
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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...
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Wilson, a.
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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...
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Wilson, a.
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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...
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Wilson, a.
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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...
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Wilson Angus
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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...
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Wilson Angus
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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...
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Wilson Angus
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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...
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