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, Ltd.

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

Collected Stories

Setting the World on Fire

Naughty Nineties (Picturefile S)

EYRE METHUEN

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

Secker Warburg

Granada Publications

Wrong Set, The - and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

<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)

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