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Novel by Angus Wilson

This article is about the novel by Angus Wilson. For the attitudes adopted by the messenger in "Alice Through the Looking-Glass", see List of minor characters in the Alice series § Through the Looking-Glass.

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.

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The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of an Anglo-Saxon bishop Eorpwald, known as the "Melpham excavation". Gerald has long been haunted by a drunken revelation by his friend Gilbert, who was involved with this excavation, that the whole thing was a hoax perpetrated to embarrass Gilbert's father.

Gilbert told Gerald that he put the idol t