This English novelist and short story writer was renowned for his strongly satirical vein, expressing concern with preserving a liberal humanistic outlook in the face of fashionable doctrinaire temptations. His works, often adapted for television, showcase a keen insight into social strata and human psychology. He dedicated himself to his craft with tireless energy, frequently moving between the novel and short story forms, leaving an indelible mark on British literature. His writing is characterized by sharp observation and subtle irony.
Meg Eliot is the wife of a successful barrister and with that comes a lovely home in Westminster, cocktail parties and a round of charity committees. What she finds is the ability to survive and, also, the joys of new friendships, new opportunities and perhaps even the idea of a new love.
Sbírka je brilantně vtipným a hodně kontroverzným odhalením ochranných mechanismů, kterými se lidé snaží maskovat hluboce zakořeněný egoismus.
On its appearance in 1952 the Times Literary Supplement called Hemlock and After 'a novel of remarkable power and literary skill which deserves to be judged by the highest standards'.
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.
A panoramic novel that stretches from 1912 to 1967 No Laughing Matter is perhaps Angus Wilson's most autobiographical novel.
A middle-aged professor of medieval history is tormented by a dark secret surrounding the much lauded archaeological expedition that helped establish his importance as a scholar
Relates the international adventures of an agronomist who has invented a magically-fertile rice and now seeks his own personal fulfillment
