People, not abstract ideas, make history, & nowhere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilson's superb portrait of the Victorians, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to tell a story
- one which is still unfinished in our own day. The 'global village' is a Victorian village & many of the ideas we take for granted, for good or ill, originated with these extraordinary, self-confident people. What really animated their spirit, & how did they remake the world in their view? In an entertaining & often dramatic narrative, A. N. Wilson shows us remarkable people in the very act of creating the Victorian age.