The Victorian Age: The century that invented the modern

The vast, contradictory world of the nineteenth century — its novels, its progress, its hypocrisies — told by the writers who lived inside it.

In this collection

• The House of Hospitalities
• A Visit to some Country Snobs Iii
• The Sigh
• The Lament of the Looking-Glass
• Scenes: Seven Dials
• The Blow
• On Clerical Snobs and Snobbishness
• The re-Enactment
• Tales From Dickens: MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT
• The Young Churchwarden
• The Miner's Daughter a Tale of the Peak
• Fetching Her
• In Death Divided
• The Pickwick Papers
• A Thought in Two Moods
• Scenes: Vauxhall-Gardens by Day
• Valenciennes
• A Jog-Trot Pair
• The Casual Acquaintance
• I Look in her Face
• The Fiddler of the Reels
• The Magic Fishbone
• A Circular
• The Rose and the Ring
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