Setting the World on Fire

Wilson, Angus

ISBN 10: 043657604X / ISBN 13: 9780436576041

Published by Secker and Warburg, London, UK, 1980

About this Item

296pp. Cyan cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket mylar wrapped, has very light chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. Novel set in the post-war years whose central theme is the love of two brothers whose lives have followed different paths. Seller Inventory # 012041

Bibliographic Details

Title: Setting the World on Fire

Publisher: Secker and Warburg, London, UK

Publication Date: 1980

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition.

About this title

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.