Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Author:Angus Wilson The grotesque idol discovered in Bishop Eorpwald's tomb has scandalized, mystified and inspired a whole generation of scholars. As a young man Gerald Middleton was involved with the dig. Now an eminent historian, he is none the less haunted by a sense of failure both as a man and as a scholar.
This novel has been reprinted by New York Times Review Books, so can be called a classic of British fiction. The setting is academia, the protagonist and professor of medieval history who has participated in a famous fraud.