The Victorians

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 724 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A dramatic, revisionist panorama of an age whose material triumphs and spiritual crises prefigure our own. The nineteenth century saw greater changes than any previous era: in the ways nations and societies were organized, in scientific knowledge, and in nonreligious intellectual development. The crucial players in this drama were the British, who invented both capitalism and imperialism and were incomparably the richest, most important investors in the developing world. In this sense, Englands position has strong resemblances to Americas in the late twentieth century.As one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in this spectacular work he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers, and soldiers whose lives illuminate so grand and revolutionary a history: Darwin, Marx, Gladstone, Christina Rossetti, Gordon, Cardinal Newman, George Eliot, Kipling. Wilsons accomplishment in this book is to explain through these signature lives how Victorian England started a revolution that still hasnt ended. 65 illustrations

ISBN: 9780393325430