Setting the World on Fire

Informationen zum Autor One of Britain's most distinguished novelists Sir Angus Wilson was born in 1913. Educated at Westminster and Merton College, Oxford he joined the British Museum as a cataloguer before being called for service in 1941. His literary career began with a collection of short-stories published in 1949. These were followed by other short-story collections, novels and plays. Co-founder with Malcolm Bradbury of the MA programme in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, Wilson was appointed professor in 1967. Chair of many literary panels, including the Booker prize, and campaigner for homosexual equality he was knighted in 1980. He died in 1991. Klappentext A novel that provides an anatomy of post-war English society from 1948 to 1969. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Angus Wilson
• Assisted by: Angu Wilson (Editor), Angus Wilson (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.02.2009
• EAN: 9780571248971
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24897-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction: general and literary, Ambition; Faber Finds; Post-war; Society