Victorious Century True crime with a wipe-clean pen

with a wipe-clean pen

as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators

but nowhere to go

Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desire

Victorious Century True crime with a wipe-clean penA superbly told history of Victoria's Britain in all its grandeur and misery, triumph and doubt To live in Victorian Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience. There were revolutions in transport, communication, work; cities grew vast; scientific ideas made the intellectual landscape unrecognizable. This was an exhilarating time, but also a horrifying one.