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Contemporary Fable
Jones, Ernest | October 11, 1952 issue

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This article presents information on the book "Hemlock and After," by Angus Wilson. The time is the summer of 1951; the unhappy hero is the grand old man, he is fifty-seven, of English letters, the novelist Bernard Sands. After much effort he has completed what turns out to be his last work, the establishment of Vardon Hall, a Georgian country house, as a refugee, where a selected group of state-subsidized young-writers are to set up an autonomous community and pursue their art. At the beginning there is much talk about this undertaking by politicians, by artists, and by the graceless Vardon commuters who have succeeded the squirearchy.

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WILSON, Angus; BOOKS; HEMLOCK & After (Book); NOVELISTS; LITERATURE; REFUGEES
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