The Victorians

Informationen zum Autor A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. 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. Wilson shows us remarkable people in the very act of creating the Victorian age.

Product details

• Authors: A. N. Wilson, A.N. Wilson
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.09.2003
• EAN: 9780099451860
• ISBN: 978-0-09-945186-0
• No. of pages: 752
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 49 mm
• Series: Arrow Paperbacks; Arrow Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book; Viktorianisches Zeitalter, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, 1837–1901 (Victorian period)