A review by dkevanstoronto
The Age of Scandal by T.H. White
4.0
The author laments that aristocrats in the post war period of Britain's long decline will be forced to do their own dishes and will not be able to live the lives of passion like they used to in the 18th century. He then proceeds to describe every crime imaginable, every shameful desire and every brutality that can horrify from that period. This was the glory days he laments. It made for pretty nasty reading and I've researched Stalin's Purges, Hitler's death camps and American racism. And yet, this shocked me. This sink pit of evil known as the Hanoverian period of English history is so fraught with everything to make one feel disgusted that this book does serve a purpose. It shows you precisely how bad it was.
Enlightenment England was a miracle not because of what it did, but because it came from the likes that T. H. White so admires. How they rose above the filth is impossible to say, but T. H. White gives you some idea of how difficult that rise must have been.
Enlightenment England was a miracle not because of what it did, but because it came from the likes that T. H. White so admires. How they rose above the filth is impossible to say, but T. H. White gives you some idea of how difficult that rise must have been.