- Published: 30 September 2011
- ISBN: 9781446493205
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 784
The Victorians
- Published: 30 September 2011
- ISBN: 9781446493205
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 784
The Victorians finds Wilson writing at the height of his powers
The Independent
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
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
A masterpiece of popular history
Frank McLynn, Independent
A wonderful book
Sunday Telegraph
Huge, entertaining volume of popular history
Sunday Times
I can't recall a history book furnishing so many laughs en route ... The Victorians is a work of scholarship, a labour of love, a persusasive polemic
John Sutherland, Mail on Sunday
Rarely have author and subject been found in such deep and contented harmony... Wilson's tour de force
Robert McCrum, Observer
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 best single-volume work on the Victorian age yet written
Andrew Roberts, Evening Standard
Wilson is incapable of writing a dull sentence... This is the history of a vanished world brought to vibrant life
Beryl Bainbridge, Observer
Wilson's panoramic survey is the best attempt so far to describe and explain what was happening in that fascinating time
Literary Review