Anglo-Saxon Attitudes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anglo-Saxon Attitudes write by Angus Wilson. This book was released on 2011-11-17. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Angus Wilson is one of the most enjoyable novelists of the 20th century... Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) analyses a wide range of British society in a complicated plot that offers all the pleasures of detective fiction combined with a steady and humane insight.' Margaret Drabble First published in 1956, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes draws upon perhaps the most famous archaeological hoax in history: the 'Piltdown Man', finally exposed in 1953. The novel's protagonist is Gerald Middleton, professor of early medieval history and taciturn creature of habit. Separated from his Swedish wife, Gerald is increasingly conscious of his failings. Moreover, some years ago he was involved in an excavation that led to the discovery of a grotesque idol in the tomb of Bishop Eorpwald. The sole survivor of the original excavation party, Gerald harbours a potentially ruinous secret...
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes to the Past
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes to the Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anglo-Saxon Attitudes to the Past write by Sarah Jane Semple. This book was released on 2002. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes to the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anglo-Saxon Attitudes write by John Anthony Hilton. This book was released on 2006. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is not a book about the Anglo-Saxons, but a book about books about Anglo-Saxons. It describes the academic discipline of Anglo-Saxonism, the methods of study used, the underlying assumptions, and the uses to which it has been put. Methods and motives have changed over time, but right from the start there have been the constant themes of Anglo-Saxon democracy and the rights of the freeborn Englishman. They have given rise to ideas and perceptions that have greatly influenced the development of English society and political history.
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anglo-Saxon Attitudes write by Angus Wilson. This book was released on 2013-11-26. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "One of the five greatest novels of the century." —Anthony Burgess The hilarious classic novel of postwar, mid-century English academia, documenting a Middle Age historian’s middle-aged slump, and his efforts to finally set his life right Gerald Middleton is a 60-year-old self-proclaimed failure. Worse than that, he’s "a failure with a conscience." As a young man, he was involved in an archaeological dig that turned up an obscene idol in the coffin of a 7th-century bishop and scandalized a generation. The discovery was in fact the most outrageous archaeological hoax of the century, and Gerald has long known who was responsible and why. But to reveal the truth is to risk destroying the world of cozy compromises that, personally as well as professionally, he has long made his own. Scathingly satirical, with Dickensian humor and nerve, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes features a virtuosic plot and a vivid cast of characters that includes scheming academics and fading actresses, big businessmen toggling between mistresses and wives, media celebrities, hustlers, transvestites, blackmailers, toadies, and even one holy fool. Everyone, it seems, is either in cahoots or in the dark, even as comically intrepid Gerald Middleton struggles to maintain some dignity while digging up a history of lies. One of England's first openly gay novelists, Angus Wilson was a dirty realist who relished the sleaze and scuffle of daily life. V.S. Pritchett called the novel "…brilliant and ambitious…In every generation one or two novelists revise the conventional picture of English character."
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes to the Past
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes to the Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anglo-Saxon Attitudes to the Past write by Sarah Semple. This book was released on 2003. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes to the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
