Jeremy Paxman

Broschiertes Buch

The Victorians

Beschreibung

A portrait of the Victorian world that takes readers on a journey through the birth of modern Britain. Using the paintings of the era as a starting point, it tells us stories of urban life, family, faith, industry and empire that helped define the Victorian spirit and imagination.

Autor

Jeremy Paxman

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BBC Books / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 617151
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 127mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781846077449
• ISBN-10: 1846077443
• Artikelnr.: 27387015

Rezensionen

A real contribution to art history, introducing the reader to a rich mix of the familiar and the unfamiliar... the book certainly taught me things about the Victorians that I either did not know or had not thought about with sufficient imagination A.N. Wilson The Guardian