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This 1956 novel Anglo-Saxon Attitudes is a social satire about one extended upper middle class family who do nothing but bitch about each other and maunder about the past. Angus Wilson wrote one of my all time favourite short stories, “Raspberry Jam”.
The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group that inhabited much of what is now England in the Early Middle Ages, and spoke Old English.They traced their origins to Germanic settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century. Although the details are not clear, their cultural identity developed out of the interaction of these settlers with the pre-existing Romano-British culture.
Anglo-Saxon attitudes by Wilson, Angus. Publication date 1983 Topics Fiction in English, 1945- - Texts Publisher London : Granada Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; inlibrary Contributor Internet Archive Language English. 346 pages ; 18 cm Originally published: London : Secker & Warburg, 1956
One of England's first openly gay novelists, Angus Wilson was a dirty realist who relished the sleaze and scuffle of daily life. 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 ...
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes. Season 1. 6.7 1992 NR. 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. Based on the novel by Angus Wilson and adapted for the screen by ...
30 de abr. de 2005 · Gerald Middleton is a sixty-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 seventh-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 ...
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