Anglo-Saxon Attitudes. A Novel.

London England: Secker & Warburg, 1971. Hardback. Marks to edge.Brown cloth with silver lettering. . In 1912 at Melpham in Suffolk the tomb of the great seven-century missionary Eorpwald was excavated by Professor Stokesay and found to contain a pagan figure of a gross and most unchristian form. As a young man, Geerald Middleton was near the scene of this dramatic discovery and through life he was linked to it by his gorwing doubts of its signidicance, and also by his meeting with the professor's daughter-in-law, the one woman he was to love. Forty years later, when this complex novel begins, Middleton has become a Professor Emeritus and written a standard work on Cnut. When it was first published in 1956, this book put the author among the masters of the modern novel. it has a richness of texture and a wealth of characters which recall the great Victorian realists. it tells a story of defeat, with penetrating irony and a compassion which cannot be ignored.412 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardack.