Title: If You Want Victorians You Want Jan Morris's Trilogy, Okay?
Product review: The author sets himself a laudible goal, to write a single volumn history of Victoria's reign that is both accessible and mildly revisionist in its tone. Sadly he has failed. Instead of reaching or even nearing his goal "The Victorians" is a mish-mash of unnecessarily complex and incomprehensibly sentence structure that has been generated in the service of a viewpoint that is not so much revisionist as '60's hippy meets the Luddites.The reader in search of a 'pop' history of the Victorians and their world is still best served by the first two volumns in Jan Morris's trilogy of the Victoran and Edwardian world. The first work,"At Heavens Command", provides a generalized look at the Victorian world while Morris's second volumn examines that same wolrd in the year of the Diamond Jubilee.
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