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Importance of Being Eton, Hardback Book

Importance of Being Eton Hardback

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The uniform is Dickensian, the sports arcane, the fees astronomical.

But Eton College still stitches itself into the fabric of our national life like no other school - the breeding ground for princes and prime ministers, where the arriviste meets the aristocrat.

What is it about Eton? For many, it is a symbol of all that is wrong with Britain: an obstacle to modernity and a powerful force for privilege, elitism, and snobbery.

For others, it represents a beacon of tradition and excellence in an otherwise monochrome world.

But whether you love, loathe, fear or ridicule it, no one can ignore a school, which has such an impact on those who go there - and those who don't.

Award-winning film maker Nick Fraser draws on his own experiences as an "OE", as well as those of teachers and fellow pupils - famous and infamous - to evaluate the phenomenon that is Eton.

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