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.
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● ISBN 9781446493205 ● 出版者 Random House ● 发布时间 2011 ● 下载 6 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2727414 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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