The Victorians
- ISBN-10
- 0393049744
- ISBN-13
- 9780393049749
- Series
- The Victorians
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 724
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- A. N. Wilson
Description
A revisionist panorama of the nineteenth century examines the era's material and spiritual changes in the wake of emerging British capitalism and imperialism, as told through the writings of such figures as Darwin, Marks, George Eliot, and Kipling. 40,000 first printing.
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