ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1957
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Angus Wilson - Hemlock and After
Penguin, 1957
246 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Hemlock and After is the story of Bernard Sands - novelist, liberal, and humanist - who sets out to establish a writers` colony at Vardon Hall, which is to be the climax of his distinguished career. But Sands has influential enemies, and life is further complicated by his wife Ella`s mysterious illness and his own affair with his young lover, Eric. Dazzling with his originality and insight, Wilson ensures that Sands`s liberal ideals, both public and private, are put to the test.

Bernard Sands, a prominent writer who has been given financial aid to start a writer`s colony at Vardon Hall, faces a failing marriage, attempts to come to grips with his homosexuality and lives next door to a procuress for paedophiles.

Angus Wilson is in his forties. A South African child-hood was followed by a public school education at Westminster School and three years at Oxford. He joined the Staff of the British Museum Library in 1937. During World War II he worked in the Foreign Office, and after the war was given the unique job of replacing the 200,000 volumes of the British Museum Library which had been destroyed by bombing. He then became Deputy Superintendent of the Reading Room. In 1955 he resigned from the Civil Service.
He published his first volume of short stories, The Wrong Set, when he was 35. This met with immense critical acclaim and was followed a year later by a second collection, Such Darling Dodos. In the spring of 1952 he published a short critical study of Émile Zola and this was followed in 1953 by his first novel Hemlock and After. In 1954 he published For Whom the Cloche Tolls, A Scrapbook of the Twenties. His play The Mulberry Bush was first produced in 1955, and his novel Anglo-Saxon Attitudes was published in 1956.


Fiction, Classics