The fifth in the series of the author's accounts on the lives of the bourgeoisie, this final volume uncovers the hidden side of the nineteenth-century Victorians, portraying them as reactionaries, revolutionaries, and middle-of-the-roaders in the pas...
A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction -- with some surprising conclusions. Focusing on three literary masterpieces -- Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853), Gustave Flaubert's Mada...