Fiction of Gay Interest

The Wrong Set
Angus Wilson
Publisher: Secker and Warburg
London, UK

Year


 		1949        first publ: March 1949
Cover / size: hardback / h 18.5 cm * w 12.3 cm / 223 pp

Dustjacket?   missing

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   000271

Condition Fair

Second printing, April 1949. Cover discoloured, beaded hole in spine and remains of sticker on front cover. Bottom page edge marked with ink. Pages heavily mottled, erased pencil inscription on flyleaf, ink inscription on rear inner cover, some page edges creased and thick dust accumulated. Good reading edition.

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Plot / Content:                              Rating: N

Wilson's first collection of short stories, comprising "Fresh Air Fiend", "Union Reunion" "Saturnalia", "Realpolitik", "A Story of Historical Interest", "The Wrong Set", "Crazy Crowd", "A Visit in Bad Taste", "Raspberry Jam", "Significant Experience", "Mother's Sense of Fun" and "Et Dona Ferentes".



Background / Biography:

Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, CBE (11 August 1913 – 31 May 1991) was an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature. Continued on Wikipedia
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