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The Autobiography of a Cad
The Autobiography of a Cad
is a hilarious mock memoir of the life and times of one Edward Fox-Ingleby. It ranges from his earliest memories of his father's Midlands estate, through Eton, Oxford, and the Great War, to his defining moment: his installation as a Tory minister in the 1930s. A rotter and a chancer of the first order, Fox-Ingleby will do anything to get what he
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Hardcover
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256 pages
Published
March 1st 2001
by Prion
(first published 1984)
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Or, Portrait of the Total A-Hole as a Young Man.
A wry,somewhat bitter satire in the form of a character study, Macdonell's novel may be one of the best explorations of the reactionary/authoritarian personality ever put to paper. Fox-Ingleby, the titular cad, is a remarkable (if supremely hateful) character, part Bertie Wooster, part Flashman, part David Brent, and part Patrick Bateman; while busy praising his own moral and intellectual superiority, the great things he's achieved, and the adversi ...more
A wry,somewhat bitter satire in the form of a character study, Macdonell's novel may be one of the best explorations of the reactionary/authoritarian personality ever put to paper. Fox-Ingleby, the titular cad, is a remarkable (if supremely hateful) character, part Bertie Wooster, part Flashman, part David Brent, and part Patrick Bateman; while busy praising his own moral and intellectual superiority, the great things he's achieved, and the adversi ...more
A great satire written in 1939 that still has a full set of very sharp teeth. Edward Fox-Ingleby is a wonderfully despicable character, a virtuosic collection of condescension, smugness, self-satisfaction, and self-justified general horridness. His entire memoir is an epic mansplaining. Some people complain about books by saying "I didn't like the characters," as if enjoying reading about a character is somehow equivalent to liking a real person. I will point these people in a different directio
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