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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [8 Volumes Complete Book Set] (Volumes 1-4, and Volumes 5-8, I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII)
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2 boxed set, each wrapped in the original cellophane. Each box contains 4 books. Volumes 1-4, and Volumes 5-8
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Brilliant, beautiful classic.......2007-01-25
This classic presented by the Folio Society, cream leather bound, and gold leafed was a nice touch.
Hours of some of the best history reading that many authors have used as referance. Everything you wanted to know about the Roman Empire, to Attila the Hun, Constantine the Great, The Byzantines, Mohammud, and onwards.
Encyclopeadic knowledge at its finest.
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- Historical fiction that educates as well as entertains
- Insight into history
- "Absolutely loved this book!!!!"
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Falling Angels: A Novel
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Set among the sweeping skirts and social upheavals of Edwardian London, Tracy Chevalier's Falling Angels is a meditation on change, loss, and recovery. Her central characters are two young girls of the same age, whose family plots are situated side-by-side in a cemetery modeled on Highgate. Lavinia Waterhouse is respectably middle-class, devoted, like her conventional, doting mother, to the right way to do things, although suspiciously well- schooled in subjects like funerary sculpture and the English practices of mourning. Her friend Maude Coleman comes from a slightly more privileged and free-thinking background. In contrast with Lavinia's mother, Maude's mother Kitty Coleman is well-educated by the standards of the day, and it has made her restless and irritable. But neither her reading, nor her gardening, nor her affair with the somber, high-thinking governor of the cemetery is enough for Kitty. She comes alive only when she discovers the women's suffrage movement, and her devotion to the cause takes her away from Maude in every sense.
Although the point of view shifts between many characters (with even the Coleman's maid and cook getting their say, sometimes unnecessarily), Falling Angels is essentially the children's story, since it is their lives that are most open to change. The narrative spans exactly the years of Edward VII's reign, from the morning after his mother Queen Victoria's death in January 1901 to his own death in May 1910. Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring) deftly uses the nation's dramatically different mourning for these two monarchs to signal the social transformations of the period. Readers at ease with English history will find Falling Angels an unusually subtle novel, with an emotional range that recalls the best of the Edwardian novelists, E.M. Forster, and his quintessential novel of Edwardian manners, Howard's End. --Regina Marler
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A fashionable London cemetery, January 1901: Two graves stand side by side, one decorated with an oversize classical urn, the other with a sentimental marble angel. Two families, visiting their respective graves on the day after Queen Victoria's death, teeter on the brink of a new era. The Colemans and the Waterhouses are divided by social class as well as taste. They would certainly not have become acquainted had not their two girls, meeting behind the tombstones, become best friends. And, even more unsuitably, become involved with the gravedigger's muddy son.
As the girls grow up, as the new king changes social customs, as a new, forward-thinking era takes wing, the lives and fortunes of the two families become more and more closely intertwined-neighbors in life as well as death.
Against a gas-lit backdrop of social and political history, Tracy Chevalier explores the prejudices and flaws of a changing time. A novel that is at once elegant, daring, original, and compelling, Falling Angels is a splendid follow-up to the book The New York Times called "marvelously evocative" and The Wall Street Journal deemed "triumphant."
Customer Reviews:
Historical fiction that educates as well as entertains.......2007-04-25
The story of Maude Coleman, Lavinia Waterhouse and their families is told in the first person by each character involved so it reads very much like a diary. I like how the reader gets to see everyone's perspectives on a situation instead of hearing a story from just one angle. We hear the traditional and modern views of the time...in a changing world where the women's suffrage movement is getting more and more forceful leading (in this story) to the Hyde Park demonstration.
As someone who enjoys walking around old Victorian cemeteries it was lovely to have this one brought to life with the people who visited and worked there. I found the details of mourning etiquette during the Victorian period and the early 1900's fascinating: How long is acceptable to mourn, what to wear and what to do with it after the mourning period is over, and the views of the time on cremation and who should be buried where in the cemetery.
A sensitive and fascinating book.
Insight into history.......2007-01-03
Boy, a cemetary as the lead character! This was the way our book club handled the discussion of this book. We were able to tag each character with how the cemetary affected their lives. I liked the short bursts of narative in the small chapters. There was much to discuss regarding the customs of the time and the role of women. How the marriages worked out - or not - was quite surprising.
We left the book wanting to know what happened next.
"Absolutely loved this book!!!!".......2006-11-07
I could not wait till bedtime to pick this book up and read on. It was written so well and kept me wanting to know more. This book was fantastic and I would recommend it to everyone.
yawn...........2006-10-31
I typically loved historical novels but this one was a snoozer. Totally uneventful until the end--and then bad things happen to the only characters you can actually like! The constant change of voice was too choppy.
o.k........2006-08-06
i didn't find is quite as good as her other books, but it''s still a very good book.
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Lady Rose Summer couldn’t be more delighted to assist Society’s most beautiful new debutante Miss Dolly Tremaine in negotiating her very first Season. Now engaged to Captain Harry Cathcart in order to avoid being shipped off to India, Rose is desperate to do something more useful than attend endless balls and parties. And the country-bred Dolly was totally at sea—and needed all the help Rose could give. But when Rose rushes to prevent Dolly from making a disastrous mistake, she discovers her stabbed to death and floating in a boat on the Serpentine River. And it isn’t long before Rose barely survives an attempt on her own life. Now, Rose and Harry’s race to uncover the secrets of Dolly’s life is stirring up a hornet’s nest of deceptions and devilish schemes from London’s most exclusive townhouses to the seemingly-peaceful Yorkshire coast. And a cunning murderer is only a breath away from burying the truth—and the persistent Lady Rose—with one devastating stroke...
Customer Reviews:
will Harry and Rose ever get together............2007-09-16
I wanted to add a few quick points since other reviewers have so succinctly covered the gist of the book.
This "mystery-lite" series, set in Edwardian England, while not the most enthralling, mystery wise, is above par in characterizations, fun dialog and giving the reader the ambiance of the period the stories take place in.
I read the first three books back to back: first-Snobbery With Violence, second-Hasty Death, and third-Sick of Shadows-and I do recommend the reader read the books in order so they can follow the flow of Rose, Harry and crews adventures and misadventures.
I am an avid reader of Miss Chesney's Regency Romances and I can honestly say that this series is just as entertaining. Chesney is well known for her intriguing bits of info about the period the book is set in and it is here as well. I learned so much about the social customs, beliefs, superstitions and slang of the period.
I would suggest this series of any fan of period fiction who is looking for something a bit lighter and more funny than say The Historian, LOL. There is enough mystery to satisfy your average mystery fan, though mystery purists may feel unfulfilled. There is a fun and sweet side story of Romance that continues throughout and read the series if for no other reason than Rose's Ladies maid and companion-the hilarious Daisy!
I hope Miss Chesney writes more in this charming series-5 stars.
As to book three-of the three first books in this series, this one I liked the least. There were parts of the storyline I just wanted to strangle the two leads, Rose and Harry, for their thickheaded behovior towards each other and like another reviewer said, I do hope Miss Chesney quickly marries them so the storyline can evolve to bigger and better things. That being said, I still think the series is very good and I'm about to start book four and I hope for more in this series in the future.
Third in a series of comedy romantic murder mysteries.......2007-03-05
This is the third in a series of murder mysteries set in Britain in the first decade of the 20th century featuring Captain Harry Cathcart and Lady Rose Summer.
To date there are four books in the series, which are
Snobbery with Violence
Hasty Death
Sick of Shadows
Our Lady of Pain
The author writes romantic fiction, mostly humorous regency romances plus one or two set in the Edwardian period, under the name Marion Chesney; and also writes mystery/detective stories such as the Agatha Raisin and Hamish MacBeth series under the name M.C. Beaton.
This Edwardian series is a something of a cross-over between the two - part romance and part murder mystery - and the books often have both names on the cover (usually something like "M.C. Beaton writing as Marion Chesney.)
At the start of this third book, Lady Rose Summer is engaged to Captain Harry Cathcart. They agreed an engagement to prevent her parents, the Earl and Countess of Hadfield, shipping Lady Rose out to India to find a husband. Neither has admitted even to themselves that they actually have feelings for each other.
Lady Rose has arranged to meet Dolly Tremaine, the latest beautiful debutate to mesmerise London society, but finds her murdered, with Dolly's body laid out as a horrible parody of the painting "The Lady of Shallott."
Despite the fact that fierce arguments between them cause their engagement to be broken off, Lady Rose and Captain Cathcart must work together again to find out who murdered Dolly. Meanwhile they have to deal with a pair of noble blackmailers and with wicked society gossips .....
The main characters in the series are:
Captain Harry Cathcart, younger son of a Baron, has left the army after being injured in the Boer war. At the start of the first book in the series he carried out a service for Lady Rose's father for which he gained a reputation as a fixer, and by the time of this third book he is successfully running a business as the Edwardian equivalent of a Private Investigator - though this makes some members of "Society" look down on him as being "in trade."
Lady Rose Summer, only daughter of the Earl and Countess of Hadfield - slightly notorious as having briefly been involved with suffragettes. Chafes at the fact that society will not allow her a useful role, and constantly looking for something more challenging to do - fom working as a typist for a bank to helping the police solve murders.
Beckett - Harry's valet: in love with Daisy
Daisy - Lady Rose's companion. A former chorus girl, but when Captain Cathcart recruited her to play the role of a maid with a contagious disease as one of the escapades in the first book, Lady Rose recruited her to do the job for real. Later Lady Rose promoted her from Maid to Companion. In love with Becket.
Detective Superintendent Kerridge - a senior policeman of humble origins and carefully supressed radical views, reinforced by the fact that whenever he has to interview an aristocrat they always threaten to report him to the Prime Minister. Plays Inspector Slack to Lady Rose's Miss Marple.
Despite that comparison, this is not in the same league as Agatha Christie as a detective story, and neither is it in the same league as Jane Austen as a romance. However, it is an amusing and entertaining light read.
Charming, but not as good as M.C.Beaton books.......2007-01-10
I have read all three of the books in this series. I was first an Agatha Raisin fan, then I discovered Hamish MacBeth. I enjoy both of those series very much, and have also read her stand-alone, "Skeleton in the Closet."
I enjoyed "Snobbery with Violence" (first of this series), so went on to read the other two books. Starting with "Hasty Death," and continuing with this one, I liked the plot lines and the character interaction, but typos, inconsistencies, and "historical" data being clunked into the story line with very little reason, began to get to me.
So I guess that my verdict is that this is a charming bit of fluff, but not very well written (and not very well edited). If you haven't read her M.C. Beaton stories, I would go for those first. Agatha and Hamish are both written as modern day, but take place (one in the Cotswolds and one in the Highlands) in locations where old customs are still very much alive, with the results being both more intriguing and quite humorous.
Good.......2006-08-24
I'm not a big fan of this series, but since the books are small and breezy, I wanted to finish them. Sick of Shadows is my favorite in the series. Or, perhaps more accurately, it was the book I disliked the least. Here's why:
*I liked that Rose and Daisy got to spend some time in the country with a new family. It did wonders for Rose's humanity.
*Harry and Rose are finally taking steps to forming a real friendship and admiration.
*The tone was a little more fast-paced which made for a better, more tightly written mystery. I found myself actually caring whodunit and that wasn't so for the previous books.
*Harry's new Secretary, Ailsa. Who can't love a character like her? Even while gin soaked, she still manages to fend off bad guys with a gun. Love her.
Sick of shadows of doubt.......2006-01-06
This book is a good cozy read but I don't think Ms. Chesney wrote it. In the second book he gave her a ring and in this book it said that he didn't. Also, lets get these two together already. I am sick of their stupid lack of communication. This could be a great series if they just got married and solved mysteries like in the Pitt books by Anne Perry. My advise is wait for the paperback or use your library.
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- The historical characters weigh down the mystery!
- One of the best Kate Sheridan books ever!
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Kate Sheridan is at Blenheim Palace to research King Henry's mistress Rosamund, said to have been poisoned there by Eleanor of Aquitaine. But her visit takes a strange turn when her hosts unwittingly begin to relive the legend.
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The historical characters weigh down the mystery!.......2006-03-28
I enjoyed all the prior installments in this series, but had a terrible time getting through this book. The plot has been well summarized by others, so I'll just comment on my thinking about this mystery.
When only one or two of the characters are based on "real life people," I am able to forget about it and read the novel as though the fictional character just happens to have the same name as someone from the past.
In this mystery, all of the characters except for the Sheridans, of course, and the servants/villians, were based on real people, and I could not dis-engage in that same way. Winston Churchill was alive within my memory, and it was too difficult to imagine him as this mystery portrayed him.
I really like Kate and Charles Sheridan, and long for a return to when the mysteries were about them, and we saw them as a couple. In this book, they were seldom together on the same page.
The end result of my struggle with this novel is that I will probably skip further installments of this series and just read S.W. Albert's China Bayles mysteries instead.
One of the best Kate Sheridan books ever!.......2006-02-09
I have been reading this series for some time, and I enjoy it very much, but this book is far and away the best of the bunch. The best thing about these books is the way that the writing duo of Susan and Bill Albert mix real historical figures and actual historical happenings into a plot for their books. I also enjoy Kate and Charles Sheridan very much. The books are written with enough detail and with enough of an interesting plot to keep readers involved. In this book Kate and Charles are unravelling a series of mysteries at Blenheim Palace. We also are treated to a really good characterization of Winston Churchill as a young man. Blenheim Palace is his historical home as he was also a Marlborough (although never the Duke of Marlborough). Wonderful book.
Charles and Kate Smoke the Marlborough's.......2005-08-20
Something very foul is afoot at Blenheim Palace, the ancestral home of the Churchill clan and Charles and Kate, sometimes known as Lord and Lady Sheridan arrive just in time to try and sort out the various mysteries that are floating about. The fun thing about this entry in the Robin Paige series is that there are so many threads that our amateur sleuths must follow and they do so quite nicely with the assistance of Winston Churchill and young Ned Lawrence who will later gain fame as Lawrence of Arabia.
The first part of the mystery involves a maid who disappeared even before the Sheridan's arrival at Blenheim Palace. This in itself did not stir much alarm but then two of the guests also disappear leaving the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough in a tizzy. The Duke is especially upset because one of the missing guests is his mistress Gladys Deacon. Obviously the Duke and Duchess are not getting along all that well and it is made quite clear that the penny pinching foul tempered Duke only married the Duchess in order to get his hands on her money. The Duke and Duchess, along with Miss Deacon are quite real historical figures and the Duchess' maiden name was Vanderbilt so there was indeed a great deal of money involved in the marriage.
As Charles and Kate begin to sniff around in an effort to find the missing guests they also turn their attention to the AWOL maid. In following her trail they stumble onto a very troubling scenario. It seems that this maid and one of the footmen have also been employed in two other homes that have been burgled during weekend festivities. These festivities involve several guests who wear all of their finery, including some very valuable jewelry. It just so happens that the king and queen will be visiting Blenheim Palace in the very near future and Charles suspects that another burglary is in the works. His investigation leads him to believe that there is a huge criminal syndicate at work, one headed by a man known only as Mr. N., short for "The Napoleon of Crime." This Mr. N. is also a very real character whose real name was Adam Worth and one gets the feeling that the next several entries in this series will involve this arch criminal.
After uncovering this plot, the Sheridan's have to look for answers to several questions. How many of the servants are involved? Who are the servants who are involved reporting to? Is Gladys Deacon involved in the plot and just where is she? And finally, what happened to the maid who left without her pay or her clothes? Some of these questions are fully answered but some issues are left hanging thanks in part to the rash actions of Winston Churchill.
The last few books of this series have been somewhat of a letdown with the authors working overtime to make political points or simply grasping at historical straws that were just too far-fetched to be believable. This book however is a return to the style of the older books produced by this husband and wife team and I enjoyed this book much more than the last two in particular. The atmosphere of the gloomy old palace is portrayed in a very vivid manner and the personalities involved make the whole story a delight. One will feel nothing but pity for the Duchess while at the same time loathing Miss Deacon and the Duke. I found myself to be quite overjoyed when Charles curtly informed the Duke that he didn't intend to take orders from the old miser, Duke or not. It made me want to jump up and shout, "You tell the old buzzard Charles!"
extraordinary historical mystery.......2005-01-26
King Henry II built Blenheim Palace for his mistress Rosamund to keep her far away from the jealousies of his wife Queen Eleanor. The present owner, the ninth Duke of Marlborough, married Consuelo Vanderbilt for her money so he can return his palace to its former glory. The pair shares an unhappy marriage though Consuelo does her best to run the palace.
Sleuth Lord Charles Sheldon and his wife Kate visit the Duke and Duchess. However, before they arrive, a servant vanishes without taking her possessions or asking for a reference. Charles believes that she was part of a band of thieves that are stealing valuables from the homes of nobles. He plants a mole inside the servants' quarters to learn if anyone else belongs to the gang. The spy uncovers the identity of another conspirator planning to rob valuables from Blenheim Palace when King Edward and Queen Alexandra visit. Charles and Kate try to ferret out the criminals before His Highness arrives, but the mastermind realizes that and alters the plan.
Meticulous research has gone into this extraordinary historical mystery to the point that readers will recognize Blenheim Palace on sight without a guide. Even with that depth of vividness, the investigation is clever as Kate and Charles play major roles in trying to unravel a conspiracy. Consuelo also is a critical participant coping with an unfaithful spouse who is rude to her even in public while preparing her home for the regal visit. Robin Paige continues to provide some of the best historical mysteries on the market today with this novel proof positive of that assertion.
Harriet Klausner
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Hasty Death An Edwardian Murder Mystery Marion Chesney 'Fans of the author's Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin mysteries, written under the name M. C. Beaton, will welcome this new series of historical whodunits.'-Booklist Eager to join the working classes, Lady Rose Summer has abandoned the comforts of her parents' home to become self-supporting. Life as a working woman isn't quite what Rose had imagined, but her drudgery ends soon enough with the untimely death of an acquaintance. In order to investigate the murder properly, Rose finds it necessary to return to London high society. With the help of Captain Harry Cathcart and Superintendent Kerridge of Scot-land Yard, Rose prepares to do the social rounds-uncovering a devious plot to blackmail and an unexpected killer. Praise for Snobbery with Violence: 'Old hand Chesney....maintains her charm and sassiness while indicting evergreen pomposity and class-status stupidity.'-Kirkus reviews 'Fans of the author's Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series should welcome this tale of aristocrats, house parties, servants and murder.'-Publishers Weekly MARION CHESNEY, the widely acclaimed author of historical romances, also writes under the name M. C. Beaton. She currently divides her time between the English Cotswolds and Paris. Mystery 0-312-30453-6 $22.95 / $32.95 Can. 51/2" x 81/4" / 224 pages Hardcover
Customer Reviews:
a fun continuation of Rose, Harry, and Daisy's adventures..........2007-09-16
I wanted to add a few quick points since other reviewers have so succinctly covered the gist of the book.
This "mystery-lite" series, set in Edwardian England, while not the most enthralling, mystery wise, is above par in characterizations, fun dialog and giving the reader the ambiance of the period the stories take place in.
I read the first three books back to back: first-Snobbery With Violence, second-Hasty Death, and third-Sick of Shadows-and I do recommend the reader read the books in order so they can follow the flow of Rose, Harry and crews adventures and misadventures.
I am an avid reader of Miss Chesney's Regency Romances and I can honestly say that this series is just as entertaining. Chesney is well known for her intriguing bits of info about the period the book is set in and it is here as well. I learned so much about the social customs, beliefs, superstitions and slang of the period.
I would suggest this series of any fan of period fiction who is looking for something a bit lighter and more funny than say The Historian, LOL. There is enough mystery to satisfy your average mystery fan, though mystery purists may feel unfulfilled. There is a fun and sweet side story of Romance that continues throughout and read the series if for no other reason than Rose's Ladies maid and companion-the hilarious Daisy!
I hope Miss Chesney writes more in this charming series-5 stars.
PS-of the first three I felt this was the best so enjoy!
Second in a series of comedy romantic murder mysteries.......2007-03-05
This is the second in a series of murder mysteries set in Britain in the first decade of the 20th century featuring Captain Harry Cathcart and Lady Rose Summer.
To date there are four books in the series, which are
Snobbery with Violence
Hasty Death
Sick of Shadows
Our Lady of Pain
The author writes romantic fiction, mostly humorous regency romances plus one or two set in the Edwardian period, under the name Marion Chesney, and also writes mystery/detective stories such as the Agatha Raisin and Hamish MacBeth series under the name M.C. Beaton.
This Edwardian series is a something of a cross-over between the two - part romance and part murder mystery - and the books often have both names on the cover (usually something like "M.C. Beaton writing as Marion Chesney.)
In this second book, Lady Rose Summer gets so fed up with being an ornament to society that she wants to get a job, and arranges for both herself and her maid, Daisy, to work as typists at a bank. While she is working there, she learns that a young gentlemen, Freddy Pomfret, who has just been murdered, had banked large sums of money from other aristocrats. Had he been blackmailing them, and is that why he was murdered? So she goes the police and offers to help find the murderer.
However, her parents have other plans to deal with their wayward daughter - which unbeknown to them are a threat to her life ...
The main characters in the series are:
Captain Harry Cathcart, younger son of a Baron, has left the army after being injured in the Boer war. At the start of the first book he carried out a service for Lady Rose's father, the Earl of Hadfield, for which he gained a reputation as a fixer, and by the time of this book he has formally goes into business, being quite successful as the Edwardian equivalent of a Private Investigator.
Lady Rose Summer, only daughter of the Earl and Countess of Hadfield - slightly notorious as having briefly been involved with suffragettes. Chafes at the fact that society will not allow her a useful role, and constantly looking for something more challenging to do - fom working as a typist for a bank to helping the police solve murders.
Beckett - Harry's valet: in love with Daisy
Daisy - Lady Rose's maid. A former chorus girl, but when Captain Cathcart recruited her to play the role of a maid with a contagious disease as one of the escapades in the first book, Lady Rose recuited her to do the job for real. In love with Becket.
Detective Superintendent Kerridge - a senior policeman of humble origins and carefully supressed radical views, reinforced by the fact that whenever he has to interview an aristocrat they always threaten to report him to the Prime Minister. Plays Inspector Slack to Lady Rose's Miss Marple.
Despite that comparison, this is not in the same league as Agatha Christie as a detective story, and neither is it in the same league as Jane Austen as a romance. However, it is an amusing and entertaining light read.
Hasty Death (An Edwardian Murder Mystery) by Marion Chesney.......2006-11-13
As usual, the book was excellent! I would highly recommend it!!
Readable and amusing.......2006-08-30
This series is a very light version of the lovely books she writes as M.C. Beaton, which I adore. Perhaps these books were actually written early in her writing career? I did enjoy reading them but they are more of a teen series than adult. I will be donating them to my high school library and I am sure the teens will enjoy them.
Just okay.......2006-08-23
Relatively amusing book, but not much of a mystery. The situations are rather contrived - every single time Lady Rose is in danger, Harry appears seemingly out of thin air and rescues her. It's all a little too convenient. I lost interest in "whodunit" pretty early in the book. The ever evolving relationship between Rose and Harry was the only interesting part of the book for me.
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In 1924, the British Empire Exhibition--"a huge propaganda exercise"--opened in Wembley to celebrate the stability and permanence of the British Empire, which was at its maximum size at that time. Within 25 years, the British would lose their empire and their place in the world, and be reduced to fighting for their economic survival following World War II. After the Victorians covers the years 1901 through 1953, the year of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In this absorbing work, A.N. Wilson tells the tale of his parents' generation, who witnessed the rapid, bewildering transformation from supreme world power to broken nation within their lifetimes. In doing so, he explores a wide variety of topics, including cultural changes, the population shift from rural to urban areas, the changing role of the aristocracy, imperialism (especially in India), the Asiatic roots of World War I, the rise of the suffragists, and the complex relationship between Britain and the U.S., which Wilson describes as being "like a lot of outwardly successful marriages, an abusive relationship, in which Britain was quite decidedly the junior partner."
After the Victorians is not a formal history. Rather than cover this era chronologically, Wilson shifts in time, moving smoothly from one subject to another, alternating between wide-angle views and extreme close-ups. He offers broad coverage of military, cultural, political, and economic themes, as well as revealing portraits of politicians, monarchs, generals, journalists, economists, painters, poets, and scientists. Filled with sharp observations and vivid anecdotes, this imaginative and crisply written "portrait of an age" successfully conveys the conflicted emotions of British subjects forced to deal with the loss of their once-mighty empire. --Shawn Carkonen
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The distinguished historian A.N. Wilson has charted, in vivid detail, Britain's rise to world dominance, a tale of how one small island nation came to be the mightiest, richest country on earth, reigning over much of the globe. Now in his much anticipated sequel to the classic The Victorians, he describes how in little more than a generation Britain's power and influence in the world would virtually dissolve.
In After the Victorians, Wilson presents a panoramic view of an era, stretching from the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 to the dawn of the cold war in the early 1950s. He offers riveting accounts of the savagery of World War I and the world-altering upheaval of the Communist Revolution. He explains Britain's role in shaping the destiny of the Middle East. And he casts a bright new light on the World War II years: Britain played a central role in defeating Germany but at a severe cost. The nation would emerge from the war bankrupt and fatally weakened, sidelined from world politics, while America would assume the mantle of dominant world power, facing off against the Soviet Union in the cold war. Wilson's perspective is not confined to the trenches of the battlefield and the halls of parliament: he also examines the parallel story of the beginnings of Modernism-he visits the novelists, philosophers, poets, and painters to see what they reveal about the activities of the politicians, scientists, and generals.
Blending military, political, social, and cultural history of the most dramatic kind, A.N. Wilson offers an absorbing portrait of the decline of one of the world's great powers. The result is a fresh account of the birth pangs of the modern world, as well as a timely analysis of imperialism and its discontents.
Customer Reviews:
Stranger Than Fiction.......2007-08-17
I'll bet that Novelist and Historian A. N. Wilson might agree that if the story he tells in "After the Victorians" were pitched to publishers as a novel, it would be rejected as too far-fetched. After all, to what events could he attribute the devolution of the greatest navy the world had ever seen to one that will soon be smaller than Belgium's? To whom would he assign the transfiguration of one of the cradles of the automobile industry to the graveyard of domestic production where the only remaining recognizable brands are owned by foreigners, and Americans Germans no less?
This hypothesis explains why this story is endlessly fascinating and in my experience seldom better told than Wilson in what he accurately terms a "portrait of an age". Anglophiles like me find the telling hard to endure, but Wilson makes the unpleasant process as fresh and entertaining as anything I've come across.
I have a few cavils. Especially in the early going, Wilson jumps from character to character and event to event with dizzying speed and apparent lack of direction, and it's just about when total frustration threatens to set in that he slows down and achieves a rhythm that serves his story well for the rest of the book.
As one might expect, he writes from a decidedly populist viewpoint and thus does not surprise when he excoriates the World War Two Allies for the bombing of European civilian targets and particularly the United States for its use of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, aggregating them under the rubric "war crimes". I would posit that he gives too short shrift to the barbaric cruelties of the Japanese exemplified by the Bataan Death March, the Rape of Nanking, the biological/medical experiment facility at Manchuria's Unit 731 and Germany's einsatzgruppen, Auschwitz, etc. One could fairly argue that the nations that spawned these medieval terrors deserved what they got.
I also have no idea (as other reviewers have observed) where he got the notion that one of Roosevelt's main, if not principal, war aims was to enfeeble Britain in order that America would replace it in the world's hegemonic order after the dust settled. He seems convinced but is not convincing.
In addition, he draws some curious conclusions from his ruminations on the causes and effects of Britain's post-World War Two welfare state, citing the National Health Service as its greatest achievement while at the same time conceding that its remit of free health care for everyone is likely unsustainable over the long run. And on the subject of the welfare state with its collectivist regime, he misses one of the juiciest quotes of the era. In 1945, Aneurin Bevan, generally credited to be one of the principal architects of the NHS, said of the Labor Party's opposition, "This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time." The Labor Party won, and two years later, both coal and fish were in short supply.
But these are, as I say, cavils. Wilson handles his primary themes with fine dexterity. His shorthand treatments of the ultimately disastrous British dispositions of India and Palestine are models of History writing, and his novelist's imagination inspires him to enrich his narrative with wonderfully apt quotations. My certain favorite is Churchill's comment in 1922, three or so years into the British mandate in the new "state" of Iraq: "We are paying eight millions a year for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano out of which we are in no circumstances to get anything worth having." Has a certain resonance, doesn't it?
Finally, having read, enjoyed, and now recommended "After the Victorians", I will proceed to purchase and consume its predicate, "The Victorians". Is a History reader's work never done?
An interesting read, but watch factual errors.......2007-07-22
Wilson, author of "The Victorians", follows up his earlier work with a narrative that traces the political, military, and cultural history of Britain from 1901 to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953. I love sweeping, multifaceted histories like this, though I don't always agree with Wilson's arguments (and the same holds true this time around). The history ends on a sad note, as Britain survived World War II only to lose its Empire. There are a number of errors of fact (some of which relate to American rather than British history), so read with some degree of caution. Anyone who enjoys broad historical narratives will learn something from this offering.
England, Wilson's England.......2007-04-26
Wilson's history of the 20th century (or, rather, the first half of it), while jaunty and a lark to read, as other reviewers have pointed out, is not a MERE pastiche. It does have a theme besides that of the decline of the British Empire, a theme which most Americans are ignorant of: Anglo Anti-Americanism. Churchill, before WWII, as quoted here, actually did believe that an all out war with the Yanks was inevitable (despite his mother being American, or perhaps because of it), and this view was shared by many English intellectuals before the war. After the war, it devolved into a sort of snobbish fatalism, in more intellectual circles, embodied in the phrase, "We're now the Greeks to their Rome."- - A reference, for those not familiar with it, to the practice of the Roman Patriciate, at the height of their empire, of using Greek slaves as tutors, instructors and counsellors in deference to their learning. - In more common usage, still to be found in the British press, to the reference to the UK as America's "largest aircraft carrier". For this refreshing reminder, debunking the mythology that developed around Anglo-American relations in the latter part of the century, Wilson is to be praised.
But there is more than a bit of tendentiousness here. This is no more evident than in Wilson's choice of great writers, and appropriation of the worth of their works in accordance to how much in sympathy they are with this view. Ezra Pound is an obvious choice, who, in one of his earlier poems, "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly" refers to America as "a half-savage country." But it's what he does with Henry James towards the beginning in which Wilson tips his hand to all students of Literature. The Golden Bowl is NOT James's masterwork because he shows an American heiress running roughshod over an aristocrat, rather than vice-versa, as in A Portrait of A Lady. The Golden Bowl, most would agree, is not James's stylistic masterwork in any event. That honour belongs to The Ambassadors, set in France.
So, one must take all this with a couple grains of salt, especially in the concluding chapters, where he maligns Oppenheimer as a schizophrenic and where, in the most sophomoric stretch in the whole book, he declaims the discovery of DNA as a validation of Proust!
Still, somehow all these flaws make the book more endearing. Wilson's writing certainly has a panache and flair to it in covering cultural phenomena almost forgotten by most Brits themselves in this "Cool Britannia" era. And he does get at least one literary thing right in stating that John Cowper Powys was certainly the greatest English novelist of his time, perhaps of the century.
So settle back in your armchairs with a pipe and a glass of sherry and...enjoy.
Not much to criticize.......2007-02-20
This is an outstanding work with wonderful and plentiful anecdotes. a bit tedious with detail at times as one might expect. But otherwise a breeze to read.
Vignettes of the Twentieth Century.......2006-11-28
"After the Victorians" is a majestic work that I thoroughly recommend to anyone interested in the general history ofr the first part of the twentieth century. A.N Wilson as produced a wonderful and varied walk through the great events of the last century following the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 and culminating in the horrors of World War II.
Rather than being a chronological time line of events, Wilson chooses to discuss a variety of themes. These cover such matters as the abdication of Edward VIII, the rise of fascism and Nazism, the influence of Churchill, the politics of America, the Battle of Britain and such cultural issues as theatre, radio and the influence of God and the churches. Yet while this will undoubtedly seem like a grab bag of events, Wilson deftly ties the lot to make a whole. We see larger events unfold while we are treated with wonderful vignettes of twentieth century life.
"After the Victorians" is a sequel to Wilson's earlier work, "The Victorians". I only wish that I had been aware of Wilson sooner and had read the books in order. I believe it to be quite imperative that I now return to the earlier work. Wilson's narrative is superb as events spread out before the reader.
Do yourself a favour, read this book!
Book Description
G. R. Searle's absorbing narrative history breaks conventional chronological barriers to carry the reader from England in 1886, the apogee of the Victorian era with the nation poised to celebrate the empress queen's golden jubilee, to 1918, as the 'war to end all wars' drew to a close leaving England to come to term with its price - above all in terms of human life, but also in the general sense that things would never be the same again. This was an age of extremes: a period of imperial pomp and circumstance, with a political elite preoccupied with display and ceremony, alongside the growing cult of the simple life; the zenith of imperialism with its idealization of war on the one hand, the start of the Labour Party, a socialist renaissance, and welfare politics on the other; and a radical challenging of traditional gender stereotypes in the face of the prevailing cult of masculinity. Under Professor Searle's historical microscope, all the details of daily life spring into sharp relief. Half-forgotten figures such as Edward Carpenter, Vesta Tilley, and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman take their place on stage beside Oscar Wilde, the Pankhursts, and Lloyd George. Motoring and aviation, to become such an intrinsic part of life within the next decades, had their beginnings in this period as pastimes for the rich. From the wretched slums of England's great cities to their bustling docks and factories, from the grand portals of Westminster to the violent political challenges of the Ulster Unionists and the militant suffrage movement, from Blackpool's tower and beach packed with holidaymakers to the trenches of the Western Front, the energy, creativity, and often destructive turmoil of the years 1886-1918 are brought into focus in this magisterial history. THE NEW OXFORD HISTORY OF ENGLAND The aim of the New Oxford History of England is to give an account of the development of the country over time. It is hard to treat that development as just the history which unfolds within the precise boundaries of England, and a mistake to suggest that this implies a neglect of the histories of the Scots, Irish, and Welsh. Yet the institutional core of the story which runs from Anglo-Saxon times to our own is the story of a state-structure built round the English monarchy and its effective successor, the Crown in Parliament. While the emphasis of individual volumes in the series will vary, the ultimate outcome is intended to be a set of standard and authoritative histories, embodying the scholarship of a generation.
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Fine study of English history from 1886 to 1918.......2006-02-06
The author, Professor of History at the University of East Anglia, concludes, "Britain was thus being governed at the end of the nineteenth century by a `ruling class' narrowly based upon landed wealth and the ancient professions ..." He honestly describes the reality, but weakly resorts to inverted commas!
Similarly, he shows how the ruling class was soft on Ulster loyalists, but harsh to Irish nationalists, trade unions and suffragettes, yet calls its attack on trade unions the `employers' offensive', again using inverted commas.
For the Entente, in 1914 Imperial Russia's population was 140 million: 21 million (15%) were eligible to vote. France's was 39 million (the French Empire numbered another 54 million): 11 million (29%) could vote. The UK's was 46 million: 9 million (18%) could vote. The rest of the British Empire had 350 million colonial slaves, who could not vote on the war or anything else.
For the Alliance, Germany's population in 1914 was 65 million (and of her colonies 6 million): 14 million (22%) could vote. Austria-Hungary's was 48 million; 10 million (21%) could vote.
The French, Russian and British empires had a total population of 629 million, of whom 41 million (6.6%) could vote. Even excluding the populations of the French and British empires, the populations of France, Russia and Britain totalled 225 million, only 18% of whom could vote. Germany, its colonies and Austria-Hungary had a total population of 119 million: 24 million (20%) were entitled to vote. So the Alliance was more democratic than the Entente, and Germany, with 22% eligible to vote, was more democratic than Britain, with only 18%.
Searle studies Britain's nationalism, gender, locality, occupation, religion and class; government, electoral and party systems; Ireland's struggle for national liberation; class struggle and the trade unions; the Empire and overseas investments, the Boer War ("We seek no gold fields. We seek no territory" said Lord Salisbury, who made sure that the British ruling class got them though); the Ententes with France and Russia; leisure and pleasure, art and culture, science and learning; and World War One, citing Rudyard Kipling's bitter epitaph on a dead soldier,
"If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied."
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In each of the past three centuries, a Prince of Wales has waited most of his life to become King, from George IV to Edward VII to Prince Charles. Each one disappointed his reigning parent. Each had an unhappy marriage and famous affairs. But only one single-handedly gave his name to an age: the future Edward VII, Albert Edward, eldest son of Queen Victoria.
How did such a roguish Prince become such a beloved King? The story of "Bertie" is the story of one of the first superstars in the dawning culture of celebrity. Drawing on previously unavailable, little-used or unknown diaries, letters, memoirs, and reportage from both sides of the Atlantic, acclaimed biographer Stanley Weintraub paints an unforgettable picture of the Prince and his worlds: his difficult and frustrating childhood, his introductions to gentlemanly sins at Oxford and Cambridge, his chilly arranged marriage to the pretty but dull Prin-cess Alexandra, and his constant escapes to balls, races, spas, and country houses, where he gambled, gourmandized, caroused, and whored. Husbands who hoped to advance among the gentry worked to arrange affairs between the Prince and their wives, maneuvering to situate bedrooms near his chambers. His string of "god-children" included some almost certainly his own.
Yet despite, or because of, Bertie's flaws, he was loved wherever he went. He was a natural diplomat, able to charm strangers and dance all night. When he toured the United States in 1860, he was a media sensation, and there was even talk of a marriage with President Buchanan's niece. When Victoria finally died in 1901 after decades of withdrawal from public life amid continual mourning for Albert, England relaxed and celebrated for the first time in years. Edward the Caresser presents an extraordinary picture of tragedy and farce, qualities that fit Edward perfectly for the role of modern monarch.
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Colorful character..........2003-11-12
If you look in the dictionary, you'll find a picture of King Edward VII illustrating the word "cad." In fact, you will also find him next to rogue, rake and bon vivant. Well, not really--but he would be a perfect match! In Edward the Caresser, Stanley Weintraub explores the life of Albert Edward, The Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII. "Bertie" is perhaps one of the most colorful royals of the last 200 years. The oldest son of Queen Victoria, Bertie is a disappointment from the time he is small, and it just continues throughout his adult life. Because of her lack of confidence in Bertie, Victoria gives him very few royal responsibilities and he will come to the throne at age 59 with very little training. The Prince of Wales uses all his free time to over-indulge in eating, drinking, smoking, gambling, hunting, traveling and most of all, women. He associates with many upper-crust gentlemen of questionable character. And he tends to go from one controversy to the next. His name is dragged through the courts for a variety of offenses from gambling to divorce proceedings. He is blackmailed on more than one occasion over indiscreet letters he has written to various women. He has a number of illegitimate children and often stands as their godfather when they are christened. He also gets himself into tremendous debt financing this opulent lifestyle. But the people of England love the prince--mainly because he is personable and also, because he shows himself to his mothers' subjects: something the Queen stopped doing after the death of her consort. Bertie is definitely a charmer, and as he opens hospitals and plants trees, the British come to forgive him his indiscretions.
One of the things I found most fascinating is comparing the life of this Prince of Wales with that of Charles, the present Prince of Wales. Although a full century separates them, they are made from the same cloth. Both men have spent the majority of their lives in the role of Prince of Wales. Both their mothers are long livers, and they've had to go through life doing inane jobs waiting to become king. They were both married to beautiful women who were adored the world over, and both cheated on their brides. At least Charles hasn't had a stable of mistresses (unlike Bertie), but ironically, the present prince must have assumed he was still living in Victorian society when it was perfectly fine to remain married to your wife and have a mistress, also. There is also irony in that one of Bertie's favorites, Alice Keppel, was the great-grandmother of Charles' current squeeze, Camilla Parker Bowles. Charles has also gotten himself into his fair share of controversy over the years, and we are left to wonder whether he will ever reign as king. (These comparisons are mine only, and are not made by the author in this book).
In terms of the book itself, I became a little bored when Weintraub went into great detail about the Prince's Indian expedition and got tired of reading the details about what he bagged on each hunt. Weintraub also has a disturbing habit of alternating between proper names and titles when mentioning various individuals. For instance, he sometimes mentions Benjamin Disraeli and sometimes Lord Beaconsfield (they are one in the same). It gets very confusing with less well-known individuals. I also think that the author does not do just to Bertie's wife, Alexandra.
All in all, Edward the Caresser is an enjoyable read. The author states that Bertie "was a walking argument for the defects of primogeniture." After reading this book,, you'll wonder how the monarchy survived.
Rather a waste..........2003-11-06
Looks like I'm alone, but I found this book frightfully superficial and entirely lacking in depth. The marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and for that matter, the relationships between the Prince and his mistresses, is glossed over and there is nothing in this book that makes one feel like they have learned anything substantial about anyone. I was SO disappointed, having read many other wonderful books on the subject. This is hardly worth the time or effort to order/read this one.
Remarkable portrait of a larger-than-life character.......2001-10-02
An old saying goes something like, 'The child is the father of the man.' Coming off successful biographies of Queen Victoria, the Prince Consort, and other eminent Victorians, Stanley Weintraub has given us a fine biography of the Victorian era's most elderly 'child' of all, Albert Edward (aka 'Bertie'), the Prince of Wales.
Heir to the throne must be a difficult position in the best of circumstances and despite his luxuriant lifestyle, Bertie's circumstances were not the best. His mother decided early on that her eldest son was uneducable (Weintraub argues he was dyslexic), unreliable, untrustworthy, and at least partially at fault for the early death of the Prince Consort, the husband she worshipped. As the decades passed, she refused to modify this harsh judgment, viewing him as a wayward and unruly child even after the Prince was himself a grandfather. In fact, if never an intellectual like his father (Weintraub seems to doubt the Prince ever in his life read a book cover to cover), Bertie proved himself clever, sympathetic, popular with the people, and a fairly skilled, if unofficial, diplomat. Nevertheless, the Queen would not allow him access to state papers, or hand off to him any but the most minor of ceremonial duties.
Barred by custom from involvement in politics, and by his mother from any meaningful preparation for his inheritance, Bertie devoted himself to the one area he could influence the most, society. Weintraub's biography shines in its illustration of how the Prince's active social life, essentially frivolous in so many ways, nevertheless helped him discover talents and develop skills that served him in good stead as sovereign. And while never prurient, Weintraub is nevertheless comprehensive in his treatment of Bertie's many extramarital affairs, from his brief flings to his longstanding relationships with Lillie Langtry, Alice Keppel, and others (including, lest we forget, his beautiful and long-suffering wife, Princess Alix of Denmark).
Weintraub's picture of Albert Edward, in short, is a fully drawn one, and the reader can develop a fairly complete understanding of him as a man and as a Prince. I found him very human, disturbing and yet sympathetic. I would recommend this biography to any student of Britain's Royal Family or historian of the Victorian era.
Looking forward to the sequel!.......2001-05-15
Edward the Caresser is a fine biography of the Prince of Wales who became King Edward VII. The title is slightly misleading since he was only called "Edward the Caresser" after he became King in 1901, and while he was Prince of Wales he was known to the public as "Prince Albert Edward". But such quibbling should be put aside. This is a wonderfully entertaining story of a boy and man who had many fine qualities which were not appreciated by his parents Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who set impossibly high standards for him and were constantly and openly disappointed when he failed to meet them. Bertie (as he was known in the family) also had to deal with being compared to his older sister and younger brother, who were their parents' favorites. After being made to bear the burden of being (in his mother's eyes) the chief contributor to his father's death, Bertie spent the rest of Victoria's reign looking for something to do. Since the Queen refused to allow him constructive work, having fun in various dissipations was his main occupation. Given such a background, the fact that Bertie turned out to be a kind, good natured man with a wide circle of friends and a loving wife and family is surprising.
Stanley Weintraub always produces a fine biography, and I hope he will follow up on "Edward the Caresser" with another volume on Edward VII's reign. It will be interesting to see how the playboy prince from an emotionall disadvantaged background turned into one of the most successful and well beloved British monarchs of the twentieth centuries
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