Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark of mid-twentieth-century British fiction, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes chronicles the moral and psychological unraveling of Gerald Middleton, a disillusioned medieval historian haunted by a decades-old archaeological fraud he suspects may have distorted the course of his academic field. Angus Wilson constructs a richly satirical portrait of postwar English society, skewering the hypocrisies of the intellectual establishment, the dysfunctions of the bourgeois family, and the quiet cowardice that allows lies to calcify into accepted truth. With a tone that balances sharp wit with genuine pathos, the novel presents a sprawling cast of vividly drawn characters whose entangled lives illuminate the personal costs of self-deception and moral evasion. Wilson's masterful command of social comedy places him squarely in the tradition of George Eliot and Anthony Trollope, and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes stands as his most ambitious and fully realized work, a novel that rewards readers with both intellectual pleasure and emotional depth.
Author: Angus Wilson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1956, Secker & Warburg
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark of mid-twentieth-century British fiction, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes chronicles the moral and psychological unraveling of Gerald Middleton, a disillusioned medieval historian haunted by a decades-old archaeological fraud he suspects may have distorted the course of his academic field. Angus Wilson constructs a richly satirical portrait of postwar English society, skewering the hypocrisies of the intellectual establishment, the dysfunctions of the bourgeois family, and the quiet cowardice that allows lies to calcify into accepted truth. With a tone that balances sharp wit with genuine pathos, the novel presents a sprawling cast of vividly drawn characters whose entangled lives illuminate the personal costs of self-deception and moral evasion. Wilson's masterful command of social comedy places him squarely in the tradition of George Eliot and Anthony Trollope, and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes stands as his most ambitious and fully realized work, a novel that rewards readers with both intellectual pleasure and emotional depth.