Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

Penguin Books, London, 1992. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. First TV Tie-in edition. Size: Small Octavo. 347 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine intact and no creasing. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. The publication and phenomenal success of Anglo-Saxon Attitudes in 1956 confirmed Angus Wilson's status as a world-class writer, on a par with other such literary greats as Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis, and John Osborne. Still considered Wilson's finest work, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes chronicles the middle age of historian Gerald Middleton, a sixty-year-old self-defined failure, and of the most hopeless kind, "a failure with a conscience". Separated from his wife and mistrusted by his own children, Middleton soon finds himself mired in one of the cruelest archeological hoaxes of the century. Hosting a colorful cast of memorable characters from Middleton's gay son, who is dominated by his overbearing mother, to Dollie, his unsatisfied mistress and accessory to the great hoax, Wilson depicts the hilarious foibles of English society with an unexpected, bittersweet compassion. It is no wonder Angus Wilson was considered the Charles Dickens of his day. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Britain/UK; 20th century; ISBN: 0140013113. ISBN/EAN: 9780140013115. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8760. . 9780140013115