Setting the World on Fire

WILSON, Angus

ISBN 10: 0670635022 / ISBN 13: 9780670635023

Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1980

About this Item

8vo. Black cloth spine with copper lettering and red paper over boards, dust jacket. 296pp. Near fine/very good. Slight bit of minor jacket edgewear. Handsome first edition. YOUNG 4176. Seller Inventory # 10012

Bibliographic Details

Title: Setting the World on Fire

Publisher: The Viking Press, New York

Publication Date: 1980

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

296 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. After The Second World War, We See Brothers Piers And Tom Mosson Grow And Change But Still Embody The Distinguishing Elements Of Caution And Staunch Stability, And Of Dash And Mercurial Creativity.

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.