Hemlock and After - Softcover

Wilson, Angus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312155441 ISBN 13: 9780312155445

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1997

Synopsis

A novel about one mans life and career. The main theme is the contradiction between the need for authority and the distaste for power. It is also the choice between fighting cruelty and falsehood by passive resistance or by direct action.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0312155441
• ISBN 13: 9780312155445
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 245