Angus Wilson
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