📗 Libro en inglés THE ENGLISH: A PORTRAIT OF A PEOPLE

To answer these crucial questions, Paxman looks for clues in the English language, literature, luke-warm religion and 'curiously passionless devotion' to cricket. He explores attitudes to Catholics, the countryside, intellectuals, food and the French. And he brings together insights from novelists, sociologists and gentleman farmers; the editor of This England magazine (launched in 1967 with the slogan 'as refreshing as a cup of tea'); a banker enthusiastic about the 'English vice' of flagellation; and a team at the OED looking for the first occurrence of phrases like 'bad hair day' and 'the dog's bollocks'. Witty, surprising, affectionate and incisive, this is a definitive portrait of a fascinating, exasperating nation at a turning point in its history.