by Richard Holmes
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A very funny, extremely opinionated, always provocative and often thoughtful read... Wilson is endlessly entertaining Observer One of the most important books of recent years Daily Mail Now that the trilogy is complete, it can be said with satisfaction that the verve, erudition and wit that distinguished the earlier books are undimmed in this latest work... He has written a fine work of popular history, and the fact that it is consistently entertaining in no way obscures the underlying seriousness Literary Review This is an enormously enjoyable book, a non-systematic, chatty and wilful piece of work, slaloming through familiar terrain with brio and dash rather than statistics and documents Spectator The story is told with a verve that catches the excitement of a turbulent era The Times This is the final volume in A.N. Wilson's trilogy tracing the course of Britain from the accession of Queen Victoria to the present day. The whole work, finished in just six years, is a monument to its author's industry, erudition and skill. It is hard to think of a professional scholar who could have accomplished this grand feat, let alone spiced the narrative with such pungent wit and piquant anecdotes Sunday Times Wilson accurately skewers the follies of all and sundry Evening Standard A brilliant panorama of the past 55 years... Where Wilson excels is in the mixture of fact, gossip and waspish thumbnail character sketches... Overall, Wilson's analysis of our age is inspired Standpoint Wilson has produced a scintillating, coruscating indictment of British national collapse since the 19th century ... Under Wilson's pen, such a history is richly told Guardian A sweeping, masterly distillation of the past 55 years in Britain, acknowledging the incredible changes since the Queen took the throne in 1953 ... while also lamenting what has been lost Books of the Year, Daily Mail
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Praise for The Victorians:
“A masterpiece of popular history.”–Frank McLynn
Praise for After The Victorians:
“No review can do justice to the richness, liveliness and sheer fun of this book. Wilson has written one of the books of the year.”–Guardian
“A provocative and spectacularly enjoyable history of the first half of the century.”–Sunday Telegraph
From the Hardcover edition.
“A masterpiece of popular history.”–Frank McLynn
Praise for After The Victorians:
“No review can do justice to the richness, liveliness and sheer fun of this book. Wilson has written one of the books of the year.”–Guardian
“A provocative and spectacularly enjoyable history of the first half of the century.”–Sunday Telegraph
From the Hardcover edition.
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