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Carregando... The Victorians: From Empire and Industry to Poverty and Faminede John D. Wright
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'The Victorians' explores the Victorian world from its cholera epidemics and asylums to its workhouses and chimneysweeps, from the Opium Wars to London's opium dens, from the gangs of New York to convicts bound for Australia, from body-snatchers to freakshows, from the British in Afghanistan to the American Civil War, from imposters claiming fortunes to women pretending to be men. Included are the lives of such colourful figures as Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, the Elephant Man and Jack the Ripper, and the world that inspired Dracula, detective stories and the character of Sherlock Holmes. Expertly written and using 180 photographs, paintings, and illustrations, 'The Victorians' reveals that behind the splendour and the facades was a world of poverty, disease and hypocrisy, where fortunes could be quickly made and swiftly lost. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)941.081History and Geography Europe British Isles Historical periods of British Isles 1837- Period of Victoria and House of Windsor Victoria 1837-1901AvaliaçãoMédia: Sem avaliação.É você?Torne-se um autor do LibraryThing. |