The Victorians

Author: A. N. Wilson

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General Fields

  • : $12.00 NZD
  • : 9780099451860
  • : Cornerstone
  • : Arrow Books Ltd
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  • : 0.544
  • : July 2003
  • : 199mm X 132mm X 42mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : A. N. Wilson
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  • : Paperback
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  • : en
  • : very good
  • : 738
  • : 32halftones(some colour )
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Barcode 9780099451860
9780099451860

Description

People, not abstract ideas, make history and in this volume A.N. Wilson has pieced together hundreds of different lives to tell a story - one that 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.

Promotion info

'Rarely have author and subject been found in such deep and contented harmony- Wilson's tour de force' Robert McCrum, 'Books of the Year', Observer

Awards

Shortlisted for Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2003 and WH Smith Book Awards (General Knowledge) 2003.