Hemlock And After

<p>A novel about one mans life and career. The main theme is the contradiction between the need for authority and the distaste for power. It is also the choice between fighting cruelty and falsehood by passive resistance or by direct action.</p>

Hemlock and After

Literature & Fiction

Angus Wilson

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

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 Old Men at The Zoo

Penguin Books, Ltd.

East Anglia in Verse

Poetry

Penguin

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.

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

Secker Warburg

The Wrong Set

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.

The world of Charles Dickens

British & Irish

Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd

Originally issued by Methuen in 1953. Illustrated by Philippe Jullian. A scrapbook of the twenties.

For Whom the Cloche Tolls

Wrong Set, The - and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Panther Books/Granada Publishing

<p>Cover worn, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.</p>

The World of Charles Dickens (Panther)

Biographies & Memoirs

Panther (Granada Publishing)

Reflections in a Writer's Eye (Paladin Books)

Travel

Paladin

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