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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes is a satirical novel by Angus Wilson, published in 1956. It was Wilson's most popular book, and many consider it his best work. [1] Plot summary. The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel.
- Angus Wilson
- 1956
A drama about a retired historian who recalls his past and present, featuring his love affair, career, and family. The miniseries is adapted from Angus Wilson's novel and won a BAFTA Award in 1992.
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- 1992-05-12
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Anglo-Saxon attitudes. by. Angus Wilson. Publication date. 1958. Publisher. Penguin. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary.
May 12, 1992 · Anglo-Saxon Attitudes. Season 1. This darkly comic satire skewers British social and academic hypocrisy. Richard Johnson (The Camomile Lawn) stars as Gerald Middleton, a retired historian coming to terms with his life's folly, with Tara Fitzgerald as his former flame.
Slashingly satirical, virtuosically plotted, and displaying Dickensian humor and nerve, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes features 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.
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Anglo Saxon Attitudes (1956) is a long, intricate, and witty novel that satirizes, none too gently, such sacred British institutions as the church, the...
My contention is that our attitudes, whether Anglo-Saxon or not, arise from our multiple and changing individual and collective identities, which condition the ways in which we see and interpret the world, past or present.
