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Autor: Angus Wilson

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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.




10 Ebooks von Angus Wilson

Angus Wilson: Wrong Set and Other Stories
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 …
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€9.97
Angus Wilson: Bit off the Map and Other Stories
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 …
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€11.21
Angus Wilson: Such Darling Dodos
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 …
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€11.21
Angus Wilson: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
'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 …
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€14.67
Angus Wilson: No Laughing Matter
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 …
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€14.61
Angus Wilson: The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot
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 …
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€14.42
Angus Wilson: Hemlock and After
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 …
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€14.52
Angus Wilson: Late Call
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 …
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€15.01
Angus Wilson: Old Men at the Zoo
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 …
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€13.72
Angus Wilson: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
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€22.44