Setting the World on Fire. Inscribed By Angus Wilson

Angus Wilson

ISBN 10: 0670635022 / ISBN 13: 9780670635023

Edité par The Viking Press, New York, 1980

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1980 first edition, first impression. Inscribed by Author. Size octavo, 296 pages. Red hard cover with black cloth spine section and bronze gilt titles to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition very good plus, front upper corner bumped, very slight fade to uppermost edge, contents very clean. Dust jacket condition very good, slight crease to corners and spine ends, spine slightly faded, not price clipped, protected. Inscribed by Angus Wilson on the title page; "For my friend Jack Plumb with all good wishes Angus Wilson, July 1981" From the collection of Jonathan Gili (1943-2004), film-maker, director and collector of various items, especially signed books. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Setting the World on Fire. Inscribed By Angus Wilson
• Éditeur: The Viking Press, New York
• Date de parution: 1980
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0670635022
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780670635023
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition, First Impression.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Book by Wilson Angus

Présentation de l'éditeur

At the end of the Second World War Piers and his younger brother Tom are growing up at Tothill House, the family home with its magnificent baroque hall by Vanbrugh. Tom is the pluckier of the two, because pluck means overcoming one's fears. Piers has no such fears to overcome; he is ambitious. As the post-war years witness a division in their aspirations and their destinies, the two brothers strive to achieve their own means of setting the world on fire. With rich characterization, virtuoso scenes of comedy, and sparkling dialogue, Setting the World On Fire provides a brilliant anatomy of post-war English society from 1948 to 1969. 'It is superb entertainment and social criticism but it is also a poem about the fire in human beings ... A moving and disturbing book and a very superior piece of art.' Anthony Burgess, Observer.