Towards the end of Angus Wilson's life his short stories were entombed in a collected volume. By way of signifying the corpus was sadly complete that made sense but it didn't do justice to the importance and quality of his work in this medium. Three volumes of short stories were published - The Wrong Set, Such Darling Dodos and A Bit Off the Map. Faber Finds are reissuing these original selections. Angus Wilson made his initial reputation by his short stories, The Wrong Set and Such Darling Dodos being his first two ...
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Towards the end of Angus Wilson's life his short stories were entombed in a collected volume. By way of signifying the corpus was sadly complete that made sense but it didn't do justice to the importance and quality of his work in this medium. Three volumes of short stories were published - The Wrong Set, Such Darling Dodos and A Bit Off the Map. Faber Finds are reissuing these original selections. Angus Wilson made his initial reputation by his short stories, The Wrong Set and Such Darling Dodos being his first two published books, appearing in 1949 and 1950 respectively. When reviewing Such Darling Dodos C. P. Snow perceptively wrote, 'Part-bizarre, part-savage and part-maudlin, there is nothing much like it on the contemporary scene. It is rather as though a man of acute sensibility felt left out of the human party, and was surveying it, half-enviously, half-contemptuously, from the corner of the room, determined to strip-off the comfortable pretences and show that this party is pretty horrifying after all ... Sometimes the effect is too mad to be pleasant, sometimes most moving; no one could deny Mr Wilson's gift.' As Margaret Drabble points out in her biography of Angus Wilson (to be reissued in Faber Finds) his stories were in their own way to be as iconoclastic and irreverent as John Osborne's plays were to be. They not so much deserve as demand to be re-read.
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Fair. 1968 printing. Acceptable to Good condition, moderate tanning to pages. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT our own).
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Used-Acceptable. Ex lib hardback (no dust jacket) 1st edition, 1st printing. Ex WHSmith Library-bookplate & label on front pastedown. Free end papers a little browned; cloth on spine a little worn, with badly worn & tarnished lettering; part ring-mark on back cover. A few spots of foxing on page fore-edge, text otherwise clean. Suitable for rebinding.
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1951. William Morrow. First. Hard Cover. Book-VG. DJ-Good, spine sunned, protective covered. 7.5x5. 187pp. Here are ten stories that deftly unveil the hypocrisies, the shams, the cruelties of people; that prick their pomposities and expose their follies.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Penguin Books 1960 first edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm. Minor shelf wear to cover. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.
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Very Good. Very good paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked but do have some tanning. Covers show minor shelf wear with minor rubbing, scuffing. Penguin Books 1508. This copy published in 1960. Illustrator: Ronald Searle (Cover).; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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Very Good. Reprint. Page edges foxed, spine sunned, about very good lacking the dust jacket. Wilson's second book and second collection of stories, a follow-up to his widely successful *The Wrong Set*.
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New. Trade paperback (UK). In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
