Wilson, Angus 1913-1991
Overview
| Works: | 545 works in 2,209 publications in 10 languages and 36,446 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc Biography Domestic fiction Psychological fiction History Pictorial works Illustrated works Short stories |
| Roles: | Author, Editor, Author of introduction, Creator, Other, Director, Dedicatee, win, Contributor, Interviewee |
| Classifications: | PR6045.I577, 823.914 |
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Most widely held works about
Angus Wilson
- Four contemporary novelists : Angus Wilson, Brian Moore, John Fowles, V.S. Naipaul by Kerry McSweeney( )
- The reaction against experiment in the English novel, 1950-1960 by Rubin Rabinovitz( Book )
- Angus Wilson : a biography by Margaret Drabble( Book )
- Angus Wilson by K. W Gransden( Book )
- Angus Wilson by Averil Gardner( Book )
- Angus Wilson, mimic and moralist by Peter Faulkner( Book )
- Reflections in a writer's eye : travel pieces by Angus Wilson( Book )
- Critical essays on Angus Wilson by Jay L Halio( Book )
- Angus Wilson by Jay L Halio( Book )
- Angus Wilson : a bibliography, 1947-1987 by J. H Stape( Book )
- Angus Wilson by Peter J Conradi( Book )
- Fiction, or The language of our discontent : a study of the built-in novelist in novels by Angus Wilson, Lawrence Durrell, and Doris Lessing by Guido Kums( Book )
- Deux aspects de l'aliénation dans le roman anglais contemporain : 1945-1965, Angus Wilson et William Golding by Danielle Escudié( Book )
- Kuriose Welt im modernen englischen Roman by Kurt Schlüter( Book )
- The Angus Wilson manuscripts in the University of Iowa Libraries by Frederick P. W McDowell( Book )
- Four contemporary novelists by Kerry McSweeney( Book )
- Die satirische Darstellung gesellschaftlicher Desintegration bei Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh und Angus Wilson, untersucht am Motiv der Party und an ähnlichen Gruppensituationen by Jürgen Enkemann( Book )
- Story-teller to visionary : Angus Wilson's narrative craft by P Radhika( Book )
- Künstler und Künstlerin in ihrer Lebenswelt : zum Verhältnis von Kunst und Realität in 3 Romanen Angus Wilsons by Gudrun Klein( Book )
- The satirical element in the novels of Angus Wilson by Dawid Stefanus Albertyn( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Angus Wilson
The world of Charles Dickens by
Angus Wilson(
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53 editions published between 1970 and 2003 in 4 languages and held by 2,185 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A biography of Dickens, the 19th century novelist and social critic
53 editions published between 1970 and 2003 in 4 languages and held by 2,185 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A biography of Dickens, the 19th century novelist and social critic
Dickens : a collection of critical essays by
Martin Price(
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2 editions published in 1967 in English and held by 2,170 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
12 critical essays that analyze and evaulate the style and works of the 19th century British novelist, Charles Dickens
2 editions published in 1967 in English and held by 2,170 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
12 critical essays that analyze and evaulate the style and works of the 19th century British novelist, Charles Dickens
Anglo-Saxon attitudes : a novel by
Angus Wilson(
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150 editions published between 1956 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 2,069 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Gerald Middleton is a sixty-year-old self-proclaimed failure. Worse than that, he's "a failure with a conscience." As a young man, he was involved in an archaeological dig that turned up an obscene idol in the coffin of a seventh-century bishop and scandalized a generation. The discovery was in fact the most outrageous archaeological hoax of the century, and Gerald has long known who was responsible and why. But to reveal the truth is to risk destroying the world of cozy compromises that, personally as well as professionally, he has long made his own. One of England's first openly gay novelists, Angus Wilson was a dirty realist who relished the sleaze and scuffle of daily life. Slashingly satirical, virtuosically plotted, and displaying Dickensian humor and nerve, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes features a vivid cast of characters that includes scheming academics and fading actresses, big businessmen toggling between mistresses and wives, media celebrities, hustlers, transvestites, blackmailers, toadies, and even one holy fool. Everyone, it seems, is either in cahoots or in the dark, even as comically intrepid Gerald Middleton struggles to maintain some dignity while digging up a history of lies
150 editions published between 1956 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 2,069 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Gerald Middleton is a sixty-year-old self-proclaimed failure. Worse than that, he's "a failure with a conscience." As a young man, he was involved in an archaeological dig that turned up an obscene idol in the coffin of a seventh-century bishop and scandalized a generation. The discovery was in fact the most outrageous archaeological hoax of the century, and Gerald has long known who was responsible and why. But to reveal the truth is to risk destroying the world of cozy compromises that, personally as well as professionally, he has long made his own. One of England's first openly gay novelists, Angus Wilson was a dirty realist who relished the sleaze and scuffle of daily life. Slashingly satirical, virtuosically plotted, and displaying Dickensian humor and nerve, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes features a vivid cast of characters that includes scheming academics and fading actresses, big businessmen toggling between mistresses and wives, media celebrities, hustlers, transvestites, blackmailers, toadies, and even one holy fool. Everyone, it seems, is either in cahoots or in the dark, even as comically intrepid Gerald Middleton struggles to maintain some dignity while digging up a history of lies
The strange ride of Rudyard Kipling : his life and works by
Angus Wilson(
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46 editions published between 1972 and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,788 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
46 editions published between 1972 and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,788 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
No laughing matter by
Angus Wilson(
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67 editions published between 1967 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 1,620 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A panoramic novel that stretches from 1912 to 1967 No Laughing Matter is perhaps Angus Wilson's most autobiographical novel. The novel chronicles the end of the bourgeois way of life as seen through the lives of the six Matthews children and their dysfuntional middle-class family. Their parents - Billy Pop and the Countess - are objects of ridicule to their children who vow never to make their mistakes. Quentin, the eldest, is a socialist who adores women. His fervent views, however, become distilled over the years until he transforms into a cynical TV pundit. Gladys, plump and amenable, is unlucky in love and eventually falls for the charms of a crook. Rupert, the handsome actor, has a successful career until he fails to adapt to the changing theatre. Margaret is a brilliant and highly acclaimed novelist but she becomes bitter as her twin Sukey sinks into domestic bliss, while Marcus, the baby of the family, believes that his career is his life. An ambitious and enriching novel No Laughing Matter is an extraordinary work in its depictions of complex family relationships, where it is just as easy to hate as to love and where everyone struggles to be an individual."--Google Books
67 editions published between 1967 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 1,620 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A panoramic novel that stretches from 1912 to 1967 No Laughing Matter is perhaps Angus Wilson's most autobiographical novel. The novel chronicles the end of the bourgeois way of life as seen through the lives of the six Matthews children and their dysfuntional middle-class family. Their parents - Billy Pop and the Countess - are objects of ridicule to their children who vow never to make their mistakes. Quentin, the eldest, is a socialist who adores women. His fervent views, however, become distilled over the years until he transforms into a cynical TV pundit. Gladys, plump and amenable, is unlucky in love and eventually falls for the charms of a crook. Rupert, the handsome actor, has a successful career until he fails to adapt to the changing theatre. Margaret is a brilliant and highly acclaimed novelist but she becomes bitter as her twin Sukey sinks into domestic bliss, while Marcus, the baby of the family, believes that his career is his life. An ambitious and enriching novel No Laughing Matter is an extraordinary work in its depictions of complex family relationships, where it is just as easy to hate as to love and where everyone struggles to be an individual."--Google Books
The middle age of Mrs. Eliot by
Angus Wilson(
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102 editions published between 1958 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 1,448 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Plunged into poverty by the accidental death of her husband, Meg Eliot tries to rebuild her life
102 editions published between 1958 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 1,448 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Plunged into poverty by the accidental death of her husband, Meg Eliot tries to rebuild her life
Late call by
Angus Wilson(
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63 editions published between 1964 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,139 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A tragicomedy centering on an elderly, retired English lady who comes to live with her son in a New Town community and finds herself out of joint with the life about her
63 editions published between 1964 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,139 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A tragicomedy centering on an elderly, retired English lady who comes to live with her son in a New Town community and finds herself out of joint with the life about her
Émile Zola, an introductory study of his novels by
Angus Wilson(
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46 editions published between 1952 and 1973 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,120 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
46 editions published between 1952 and 1973 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,120 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The seven deadly sins by
Kurt Weill(
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16 editions published between 1962 and 2002 in English and Swedish and held by 1,110 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A series of essays about the seven deadly sins, previously published in the Sunday Times, London, compiled by Ian Fleming author of the James Bond series
16 editions published between 1962 and 2002 in English and Swedish and held by 1,110 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A series of essays about the seven deadly sins, previously published in the Sunday Times, London, compiled by Ian Fleming author of the James Bond series
Hemlock and after by
Angus Wilson(
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102 editions published between 1952 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,107 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The novel offers a candid portrayal of gay life in post-World War II England
102 editions published between 1952 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,107 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The novel offers a candid portrayal of gay life in post-World War II England
The old men at the zoo by
Angus Wilson(
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64 editions published between 1961 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 1,102 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Set in a near future (the novel was first published in 1961 and is set in the period 1970-73), this is Angus Wilson's most allegorical novel, about a doomed attempt to set up a reserve for wild animals. Simon Carter, secretary of the London Zoo, has accepted responsibility and power to the prejudice of his gifts as a naturalist. But power is more than just the complicated game played by the old men at the zoo in the satirical first half of this novel: it lies very near to violence, and in the second half real life inexorably turns to fantasy - the fantasy of war. This tense and at times brutal story offers the healing relationship between man and the natural world as a solution for the power dilemma
64 editions published between 1961 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 1,102 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Set in a near future (the novel was first published in 1961 and is set in the period 1970-73), this is Angus Wilson's most allegorical novel, about a doomed attempt to set up a reserve for wild animals. Simon Carter, secretary of the London Zoo, has accepted responsibility and power to the prejudice of his gifts as a naturalist. But power is more than just the complicated game played by the old men at the zoo in the satirical first half of this novel: it lies very near to violence, and in the second half real life inexorably turns to fantasy - the fantasy of war. This tense and at times brutal story offers the healing relationship between man and the natural world as a solution for the power dilemma
The wild garden; or Speaking of Writing by
Angus Wilson(
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29 editions published between 1923 and 2009 in English and held by 1,027 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
29 editions published between 1923 and 2009 in English and held by 1,027 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
As if by magic by
Angus Wilson(
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48 editions published between 1973 and 2009 in English and held by 948 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Hamo is a distinguished plant geneticist and a discoverer of a 'magic' rice, which is capable of trebling crop yields, but also a homosexual who is obsessed with adolescent male beauty
48 editions published between 1973 and 2009 in English and held by 948 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Hamo is a distinguished plant geneticist and a discoverer of a 'magic' rice, which is capable of trebling crop yields, but also a homosexual who is obsessed with adolescent male beauty
The wrong set, and other stories by
Angus Wilson(
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85 editions published between 1949 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 920 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
85 editions published between 1949 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 920 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Setting the world on fire by
Angus Wilson(
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46 editions published between 1980 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 916 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Tegen de achtergrond van het na-oorlogse Engeland willen twee broers uit een excentriek geslacht hun ambitie opzienbarende dingen tot stand te brengen verwezenlijken
46 editions published between 1980 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 916 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Tegen de achtergrond van het na-oorlogse Engeland willen twee broers uit een excentriek geslacht hun ambitie opzienbarende dingen tot stand te brengen verwezenlijken
A bit off the map, and other stories by
Angus Wilson(
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61 editions published between 1957 and 2009 in English and held by 909 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
61 editions published between 1957 and 2009 in English and held by 909 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Such darling dodos, and other stories by
Angus Wilson(
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74 editions published between 1950 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 815 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Collection of short stories - ruthless and often very funny
74 editions published between 1950 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 815 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Collection of short stories - ruthless and often very funny
Diversity and depth in fiction : selected critical writings of Angus Wilson by
Angus Wilson(
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17 editions published between 1983 and 1984 in English and held by 734 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Includes information on Jane Austen (Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sandition, Sense an Sensibility), Albert Camus (Caligula, La Chute, LʼEtranger), Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes), Charles Dickens (Bleak House, The Chimes, David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Nicolas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Pickwick Papers, Pictures from Italy), George Eliot (Daniel Deronda, Felix Holt, Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Scenes of Clerical Life), Gustave Flaubert (Bouvard et Pecuchet), etc
17 editions published between 1983 and 1984 in English and held by 734 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Includes information on Jane Austen (Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sandition, Sense an Sensibility), Albert Camus (Caligula, La Chute, LʼEtranger), Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes), Charles Dickens (Bleak House, The Chimes, David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Nicolas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Pickwick Papers, Pictures from Italy), George Eliot (Daniel Deronda, Felix Holt, Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Scenes of Clerical Life), Gustave Flaubert (Bouvard et Pecuchet), etc
England by
Edwin Smith(
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3 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 468 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 468 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
For whom the cloche tolls; a scrap-book of the twenties by
Angus Wilson(
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23 editions published between 1953 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 462 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Maisie had two small children, left over from a marriage abruptly terminated by something called World War I. But the War was over now, and Maisie wasn't about to let either widowhood or motherhood stand in the way of the pleasures of peace. So with youth and beauty intact, and with two outrageous kids in tow, Maisie headed for Europe to make the 1920's a time to remember. For herself. For her children. And for readers who have discovered the most delightful heroine of the decade-- the 1970's, that is..." --Page [1]
23 editions published between 1953 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 462 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Maisie had two small children, left over from a marriage abruptly terminated by something called World War I. But the War was over now, and Maisie wasn't about to let either widowhood or motherhood stand in the way of the pleasures of peace. So with youth and beauty intact, and with two outrageous kids in tow, Maisie headed for Europe to make the 1920's a time to remember. For herself. For her children. And for readers who have discovered the most delightful heroine of the decade-- the 1970's, that is..." --Page [1]
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Related Identities
- McSweeney, Kerry 1941- Other Author Editor
- Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Author
- Tillotson, Kathleen 1906-2001 Author
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh) 1907-1973
- Hardy, Barbara 1924-2016
- Van Ghent, Dorothy Bendon 1907-
- Harvey, W. J. (William John) 1925-1967
- Marcus, Steven 1928-2018
- Ford, George H. (George Harry) 1914-1994
- Price, Martin 1920-2010
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Amis, Kingsley Archaeologists Authors, English British--Foreign countries Country homes Deadly sins Dickens, Charles, Didactic fiction, English England England--London English fiction Ethics Ethics in literature Excavations (Archaeology) Failure (Psychology) Families Fathers and sons Fiction Forgery of antiquities Fowles, John, Future life Gay men Great Britain Green Revolution Homosexuality Interpersonal relations Kipling, Rudyard, Middle-aged men Middle-aged women Mimesis in literature Mistresses Moore, Brian, Moral conditions in literature Naipaul, V. S.--(Vidiadhar Surajprasad), Nineteen twenties Novelists, English Parent and adult child Plant geneticists Psychological fiction, English Religion Short stories, English Snow, C. P.--(Charles Percy), Travel Travelers' writings, English Voyages and travels Williams, Charles, Wilson, Angus Wilson, Angus, Women Zola, Émile,
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Alternative Names
Angus Wilson britischer Schriftsteller
Angus Wilson britisk bibliotekar
Angus Wilson Brits bibliothecaris (1913-1991)
Angus Wilson brittisk bibliotekarie
Angus Wilson écrivain britannique
Angus Wilson scrittore britannico
Johnstone-Wilson, Angus F. 1913-1991
Johnstone-Wilson, Angus Frank 1913-1991
Uilson, Èngus.
Vilson, Angas
Vilsonas Angus Frankas Džonstonas
Vilsonas Engus
Wilson, A. F. J. 1913-1991
Wilson, A. F. J. (Angus Frank Johnstone), 1913-1991
Wilson, A. N.
Wilson, Agnus 1913-1991
Wilson, Angus, 1913-
Wilson, Angus Frank
Wilson Angus Frank Johnstone
Wilson, Angus Frank Johnstone 1913-1991
Ангус Уилсон
Уилсон Энгус
Уилсон, Энгус 1913-1991
انجس ويلسون، 1913-1991
آنقوس ویلسون
آنگوس ویلسون کتابدار بریتانیایی
ആൻഗസ് വിൽസൺ
윌슨, 앵거스 1913-1991
アンガス・ウィルソン
ウィルソン, アンガス
安格斯·威尔逊
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