No Laughing Matter

Name: No Laughing Matter
Author: Angus Wilson

by Angus Wilson

Comic novel of a chaotic family's tribulations over several decades

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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.

More by Angus Wilson

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
The Old Men at the ZooNovel set in a zoo where aging characters confront mortality and social decay