Victorians undone: tales of the flesh in the age of decorum
β Scribed by Kathryn Hughes
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers;4th Estate
- Year
- 2016;2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 6 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0007548389
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β¦ Synopsis
'A work of formidable scholarship that propels the reader from idea to idea. Reading it is like unravelling the bandages on a mummy to find the face of the past staring back in all its terrible and poignant humanity' Financial TimesA groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians.
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