Setting the World On Fire - Softcover
In the great baroque hall at Totnill House, Vanbrugh's addiction to the otherwise classical structure built by Sir Roger Pratt, depicting the fall of Phaeton, ten-year-old Piers Mosson stands in wonder, and begins slowly to dance. The author also wrote "Late Call" and "As If By Magic".
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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.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0140159657
- ISBN 13 9780140159653
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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