
The Victorians
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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 *More details
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