The Complete Victorian Treasury - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1862052506 ISBN 13: 9781862052505

Publisher: Pavilion Books Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

This heady banquet of prose, poetry, and art is devoted to subjects dear to Victorian hearts. Beginning with love, marriage, and children, it skillfully draws on the novels of Emily Bront and George Eliot, Galsworthy and Trollope, and the poetry of Keats, Tennyson, Kipling, and the Brownings. The Grand Tour--that continental ramble that culminated among the ruins of Rome and served as a finishing school for aristocrats--was also popular with Victorians. Here we find Edith Wharton writing on Paris, Robert Louis Stevenson on the Alps, Lord Byron on Venice, Henry James on Rome--with marvelous depictions of European scenery encountered along the way. Christmas was never more lavishly celebrated than in19th-century England, and the book's final section features enchanting evocations of the festive season as Victorians knew it. Beautifully enhanced with200 period paintings and illustrations, every page of this treasury is a literary and visual delight.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pavilion Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1862052506
• ISBN 13: 9781862052505
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 187
• Editor: Pickles Sheila