The British

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Portrait of a People
By ANTHONY GLYN
The British are surely the most fascinating people in the world. But images which have been projected of them, and which they rather like to project themselves are very far from being the whole truth. Are they cold, reserved, steeped in tradition and ceremony, obsessed by gardening and sport? Or are they sexy swingers, trend setters in fashion and ideas, creators of new relaxed morál codes? Is the heart of Britain Carn-aby Street, the Houses of Parliament, Fleet Street, the Tower of London, or the ehemi-cal faetories of the North?
Anthony Glyn, an insider who is alsó an outsider, answers these and other questions as he writes with affection of his own people and the country where he has spent most of his life. But as a cosmopolitan who has lived in many other eountries as well, he is able to deseribe with detachment and humor such subjects as British sexual habits, eating and drinking, eustoms, family rela-tionships, publie schools, class... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Portrait of a People
By ANTHONY GLYN
The British are surely the most fascinating people in the world. But images which have been projected of them, and which they rather like to project themselves are very far from being the whole truth. Are they cold, reserved, steeped in tradition and ceremony, obsessed by gardening and sport? Or are they sexy swingers, trend setters in fashion and ideas, creators of new relaxed morál codes? Is the heart of Britain Carn-aby Street, the Houses of Parliament, Fleet Street, the Tower of London, or the ehemi-cal faetories of the North?
Anthony Glyn, an insider who is alsó an outsider, answers these and other questions as he writes with affection of his own people and the country where he has spent most of his life. But as a cosmopolitan who has lived in many other eountries as well, he is able to deseribe with detachment and humor such subjects as British sexual habits, eating and drinking, eustoms, family rela-tionships, publie schools, class distinctions, and many other matters that go to make up a distinet culture and way of life.
Sir Anthony's analysis of the British character is witty, perceptive, originál— and often unexpected. The scope of the book is wide, from Hampshire to the Isle of Skye, from the Celtic tribes to the new names of the seventies. Henry VIII, Queen Victoria, the English countryside, and Swinging Lon-
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don are all here—as is life on the factory floor, at a Highland Ball, at a society wed-ding, at a Mayfair party, in a Liverpool dockside pub, in a London gambling casino, or in a St. James's Street club.
The British is a full-scale factual por-trait, warts and all, of a people who have made a unique place for themselves in the world. Demolishing fallacies and miscon-ceptions, it presents the British as they really are and explains how they have come to be that way.
THE AUTHOR
Sir Anthony Glyn was born in London and educated at Eton. During World War II lie served with the Welsh Guards and after-wards worked as a sugár planter, office manager, music critic, factory worker, and cowboy before becoming a full-time writer. He lias lived most of his life in England, either in London or in his old thatched cot-tage in Hampshire. But being a confirmed globe-trotter, he has alsó lived in five other countries, whicli has helped give his work its distinctive cosmopolitan flavor. His pre-vious books include a biography of his grandmother, the novelist and screen writer of silent movies, Elinor Glyn; a travel book about the Seine; and the novels Pemberton Ltd., I Can Take It All, and The Dragon Var lation.
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