The Victorians Author:A. N. Wilson A.N. Wilson does for the Victorians what Peter Ackroyd did for London. — The two great inventions of the Victorians -- industrial capitalism and imperialism are here illuminated through the people who built them. — In this panoramic survey of the Victorian Age, award-winning biographer A.N. Wilson describes the men and women who brought the modern... more » age into being: businessmen, journalists, politicians. They were challenged by the ideas of such men as Karl Marx, William Morris and George Bernard Shaw.
From the lofty and famous to the poor and obscure, as well as the butchers and victims of conflict in Ireland, India and Africa, they?re all here in a wonderful mosaic of lives pieced together to tell a story -- one that is still unfinished in our own day.