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Angus Wilson

EnglishAugust 11, 1913 – May 31, 1991Social Novel

Wilson was a distinguished post-war novelist whose fiction ranged from acidic social comedy to Dickensian panoramas of English life. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes is his most ambitious novel, and The Wild Garden is an important statement of his literary ideals.

Works

  • Anglo-Saxon AttitudesNovel of a scholar's life disrupted by a fraudulent archaeological discovery→
  • Hemlock and AfterNovel exploring morality and desire through connected lives in post-war England→
  • The Middle Age of Mrs EliotNovel following a widow's journey through middle age and social reinvention→
  • No Laughing MatterComic novel of a chaotic family's tribulations over several decades→
  • The Old Men at the ZooNovel set in a zoo where aging characters confront mortality and social decay→

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Evelyn Waugh·Henry Green Yorke·Ivy Compton-Burnett
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