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The Victorians
A. N. Wilson
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Description for The Victorians
paperback. In a panoramic survey of the Victorian Age, this work describes the men and women who brought the modern age into being. The capitalist world was challenged by the ideas of such men as Karl Marx, William Morris and George Bernard Shaw - here they are. Here are also the lofty and famous and here too are the poor and the obscure. Num Pages: 752 pages, 32. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 41. Weight in Grams: 562.
People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilson's superb portrait of the Victorians, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to tell a story - one which is still unfinished in our own day. The 'global village' is a Victorian village and many of the ideas we take for granted, for good or ill, originated with these extraordinary, self-confident people. What really animated their spirit, and how did they remake the world in their view? In an entertaining and often dramatic narrative, A. N. Wilson shows us remarkable ... Read more
People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilson's superb portrait of the Victorians, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to tell a story - one which is still unfinished in our own day. The 'global village' is a Victorian village and many of the ideas we take for granted, for good or ill, originated with these extraordinary, self-confident people. What really animated their spirit, and how did they remake the world in their view? In an entertaining and often dramatic narrative, A. N. Wilson shows us remarkable ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
Number of Pages
784
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099451860
SKU
9780099451860
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About A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has held a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.
Reviews for The Victorians
The best single-volume work on the Victorian age yet written
Andrew Roberts
Evening Standard
Huge, entertaining volume of popular history
Sunday Times
A wonderful book
Sunday Telegraph
A masterpiece of popular history
Frank McLynn
Independent
Wilson is incapable of writing a dull sentence... This is the history of a vanished ... Read more
Andrew Roberts
Evening Standard
Huge, entertaining volume of popular history
Sunday Times
A wonderful book
Sunday Telegraph
A masterpiece of popular history
Frank McLynn
Independent
Wilson is incapable of writing a dull sentence... This is the history of a vanished ... Read more