Setting the World On Fire - Softcover

Wilson, Angus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140159657 ISBN 13: 9780140159653

Publisher: Penguin, 1992

Synopsis

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".

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140159657
• ISBN 13: 9780140159653
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304