{"product_id":"the-victorians-a-n-wilson-folio-society-british-history-2008-1st-ed","title":"The victorians","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n The Victorians by A. N. Wilson. 32 pages of colour and black \u0026amp; white plates. Slipcase printed with a photograph of Mansion House Street, London, c.1896. Bound in green buckram, blocked with a design by David Pearson. 10x6¾in. 704pp.\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n \u003cdiv\u003e\n  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, England's position has strong resemblances to America's in the late twentieth century.\n \u003c\/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003c\/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv\u003e\n  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. Wilson's accomplishment in this book is to explain through these signature lives how Victorian England started a revolution that still hasn't ended.\n \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n Please look closely at the photos as they are part of the description. Will wrap and pack very carefully. Will post worldwide.\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n Any questions please ask. In the unlikely event you do encounter a problem, please do message me first to resolve it, and I will do my best to help.\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n All the books are stored in our smoke-free, climate-controlled shop in Surbiton, London.\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n","brand":"Folio Vault","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54986340172115,"sku":"20545","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1085\/2951\/6883\/files\/10_e6331914-005c-4451-8081-2c90dca32772.jpg?v=1789768589","url":"https:\/\/thefoliovault.com\/products\/the-victorians-a-n-wilson-folio-society-british-history-2008-1st-ed","provider":"Folio Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}