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  • No Laughing Matter

    by Angus Wilson ...
    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 - Billy Pop and the Countess - are objects of ridicule to their children who vow never to make their ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot

    by Angus Wilson ...
    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 senseless tragedy. Totally alone she is thrust into a struggle to reconstruct her life as she realises that ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Hemlock and After

    by Angus Wilson ...
    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 Sands, is a novelist and an intellectual who tries to found a centre for young writers. However, Sands is ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • The Wrong Set: Selected Stories (Faber Editions)

    A literary master' - Ian McEwan

    by Angus Wilson ...
    'A thing to rejoce over' (Evelyn Waugh)Illicit queer crushes on a family picnic. A nightclub singer lecturing her Communist nephew. Drunken feuds at the seedy South Kensington Hotel's staff dance. The eccentric spinsters tempting a little boy to grotesque acts.Welcome to the singular world of Angus Wilson. An overlooked legend of the post-war queer landscape, he casts a waspish, tragicomic yet ... Read more

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  • Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

    by Angus Wilson ...
    '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 1956, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes draws upon perhaps the most famous archaeological hoax in history: the ... Read more

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  • Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

    by Angus Wilson ...
    "One of the five greatest novels of the century." —Anthony BurgessThe hilarious classic novel of postwar, mid-century English academia, documenting a Middle Age historian’s middle-aged slump, and his efforts to finally set his life rightGerald Middleton is a 60-year-old self-proclaimed failure. Worse than that, he’s "a failure with a conscience." As a young man, he was involved in an ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Late Call

    by Angus Wilson ...
    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 alleys and recreation areas; to the committees and purposeful entertaining involved in the creation of ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • The Wrong Set and Other Stories

    by Angus Wilson ...
    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 'crazy Cockshott family', as they delight to dub themselves. There is the search for really nice ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Old Men at the Zoo

    by Angus Wilson ...
    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 prejudice of his gifts as a naturalist. But power is more than just the complicated game played by the old men ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Such Darling Dodos

    And Other Stories

    by Angus Wilson ...
    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, Such Darling Dodos and A Bit Off the Map. Faber Finds are reissuing these original selections ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • A Bit off the Map and Other Stories

    by Angus Wilson ...
    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 - Kennie, the Borstal Boy mascot of an intellectual clique; June Raven, an SW3 hostess who gets over ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

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    The Wrong Set: Selected Stories (Faber Editions)

    A literary master' - Ian McEwan

    by Angus Wilson ...
    Narrated by tbc ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 53 min

    'A thing to rejoce over.' (Evelyn Waugh)Illicit queer crushes on a family picnic. A nightclub singer lecturing her Communist nephew. Drunken feuds at the seedy South Kensington Hotel's staff dance. The eccentric spinsters tempting a little boy to grotesque acts.Welcome to the singular world of Angus Wilson. An overlooked legend of the post-war queer landscape, he casts a waspish, tragicomic yet ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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