For Whom the Cloche Tolls: A Scrap-Book of the Twenties (1920's) - Softcover

Angus Wilson; Philippe Jullian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184232439X ISBN 13: 9781842324394

Publisher: House of Stratus, 2001

Synopsis

Described by Cecil Beaton as 'an evocative and nostalgic scrapbook of the Twenties...featuring the fun-mad, man-mad Maisie, a red-hot grandmother from Texas', this book is a tongue-in-cheek collection of diary extracts, cartoons and other snippets from the decade of Flappers and decadence - Wilson at his most light-hearted. AUTHBIO: Angus Wilson was one of Britain's most respected twentieth century novelists. His razor-sharp and savagely witty examinations of British manners, characters and social conflicts resonate with a wide readership. He was born in 1913 in Surrey, and went on to work for a variety of organisations including the intelligence services at Bletchley and the British Library before publishing his first book to great acclaim in 1949. He founded the world-famous Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia with Malcolm Bradbury in the late 1960s, and became Chair of the Arts Council's Literature Panel and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was also one of Britain's first openly gay writers, tackling the subject in his writing well before the liberalisation laws of 1967. He was knighted for services to literature in 1980.

About this edition

• Publisher: House of Stratus
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 184232439X
• ISBN 13: 9781842324394
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 129