Incline Our Hearts (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: A. N. Wilson
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The post-World War II period
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Julian Ramsay, Uncle Roy, Aunt Deirdre, Felicity, Sargent Lampitt, James Petworth Lampitt, Miles Darnley, Beryl Beach, Raphael Hunter, Val Treadmill
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Adolescence, World War II, Schools or school life, Poverty or poor people, England or English people, Imagination, Orphans or orphanages
- Locales: England
A. N. Wilson is not yet forty, yet the flyleaf of Incline Our Hearts lists ten previous novels and six works of biography and criticism, including a prizewinning biography of Russian novelist compared Wilson’s novels to those of Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Anthony Powell, and Vladimir Nabokov, but the immediate inspiration for his eleventh novel may well have come from his work on Tolstoy. Wilson’s narrator and protagonist, the lonely, shy, and frightened Julian Ramsay, shares with Tolstoy the misfortune of being orphaned at an early age and hence being reared by...
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