People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. The 'global village' is a Victorian village and many of the ideas we take for granted, for good or ill, originated with these extraordinary, self-confident people. Wilson shows us remarkable people in the very act of creating the Victorian age.
50,000 copies sold in hardback. An Arrow superlead title to be published alongside Wilson's biography of Iris Murdoch. Was selected by many critics as Book of the Year. "Rarely have author and subject been found in such deep and contented harmony...Wilson's "tour de force"" Robert McCrum, Books of the Year, "Observer".
