The Portable Victorian Reader

This anthology recalls Victorian England in all its splendor, squalor, high good humor, and remorseless conscience. Here are extensive selections from the novels of Charlotte Bronte, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens; the social and political observations of Benjamin Disraeili, Thomas Carlyle, and Freidrich Engels; the religious writings of Matthew Arnold and John Henry Newman; the scientific works of Charles Lyell, Thomas Huxley, and Charles Darwin; and art criticism by Oscar Wilde, John Ruskin, and Walter Pater, along with journalism, speeches, letters, and entries from the personal diaries of such luminaries as Queen Victoria herself.