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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: 574.
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 people in the very act of creating the Victorian age.
Product Details
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
784
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099451860
SKU
V9780099451860
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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 world brought to vibrant life
Beryl Bainbridge
Observer
The Victorians widens the focus of God's Funeral which was one of the best books of its year. This one, too, is to be devoured
Tom Stoppard
Sunday Telegraph
Reading A. N. Wilson's The Victorians provides ongoing pleasure in handsomely researched, beautifully written prose about an age which we have come to think disparagingly. We thought wrong
Clement Freud
Mail on Sunday
The Victorians was one of the books that gave me greatest pleasure during the past year... A brilliant evocation of an age
Ian McIntyre
The Times
Rarely have author and subject been found in such deep and contented harmony... Wilson's tour de force
Robert McCrum
Observer
Wilson's panoramic survey is the best attempt so far to describe and explain what was happening in that fascinating time
Literary Review
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 world brought to vibrant life
Beryl Bainbridge
Observer
The Victorians widens the focus of God's Funeral which was one of the best books of its year. This one, too, is to be devoured
Tom Stoppard
Sunday Telegraph
Reading A. N. Wilson's The Victorians provides ongoing pleasure in handsomely researched, beautifully written prose about an age which we have come to think disparagingly. We thought wrong
Clement Freud
Mail on Sunday
The Victorians was one of the books that gave me greatest pleasure during the past year... A brilliant evocation of an age
Ian McIntyre
The Times
Rarely have author and subject been found in such deep and contented harmony... Wilson's tour de force
Robert McCrum
Observer
Wilson's panoramic survey is the best attempt so far to describe and explain what was happening in that fascinating time
Literary Review