SETTING THE WORLD ON FIRE

Wilson, Angus

ISBN 10: 043657604X / ISBN 13: 9780436576041

Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1980

About this Item

296pp. No inscriptions, clipping, fading or wear.

Seller Inventory # CG116

Bibliographic Details

• Title: SETTING THE WORLD ON FIRE
• Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 043657604X
• ISBN 13: 9780436576041
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First

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Synopsis

Physical description; [8], 296 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; Fiction in English. English fiction 20th century. Brothers ; Fiction. Baby boom generation ; Fiction.

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.