After the Victorians
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‘Cathey’ (excerpt) by Ezra Pound, from The Translations of Ezra Pound, copyright © 1963 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
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FICTION
The Sweets of Pimlico
Unguarded Hours
Kindly Light
The Healing Art
Who Was Oswald Fish?
Wise Virgin
Scandal
Gentlemen in England
Love Unknown
Stray
The Vicar of Sorrows
Dream Children
My Name Is Legion
A Jealous Ghost
The Lampitt Chronicles
Incline Our Hearts
A Bottle in the Smoke
Daughters of Albion
Hearing Voices
A Watch in the Night
NON-FICTION
The Laird of Abbotsford
The Life of John Milton
Hilaire Belloc
How Can We Know?
Penfriends from Porlock
Tolstoy
C. S. Lewis: A Biography
Jesus
The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor
Paul
God’s Funeral
The Victorians
Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her
London: A Short History
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Notice
List of Illustrations
Foreword and Acknowledgements
1 Oedipus Rex, Oedipus Kaiser
2 Rupees and Virgins
3 The Land
4 The Accursed Power
5 Love in the Suburbs
6 God – and the Americans
7 Nationalisms
8 Shipwreck
9 An Asiatic Power
10 Barbarous Kings
11 Revolutions
12 Chief
13 Peace
14 Protons – Massacres – Bombs. Ireland and Iraq
15 Communists and Fascism – The Allure of Violence
16 The Silly Generation – From Oswald Spengler to Noël Coward
17 The Means of Grace and the Hope of Glory
18 The Secrets of a Woman’s Heart – Marie Stopes, Radclyffe Hall
19 For the Benefit of Empire
20 The ABC of Economics
21 Puzzles and Pastoral
22 Two Thousand Whispered Voices
23 Politics
24 The Abdication
25 The European Crisis
26 The Special Relationship I
27 Churchill in 1940
28 From the Battle of Britain to Pearl Harbor
29 Bombers and the Bombed
30 In the Broadcast
31 The Special Relationship II
32 Prisoners 45°
33 If God Wearied of Mankind
34 Retributions
35 The End of the British Empire – India and Palestine
36 Widmerpool’s Britain
37 The Hereditary Principle
Notes
Bibliography
Index
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
About the Author
Also by A. N. Wilson
Copyright
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wilson, A. N., 1950–
After the Victorians / A. N. Wilson.
p. cm.
“First published by Hutchinson in 2005 in Great Britain”—T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42515-9
eISBN: 978-1-46689-370-2
1. Great Britain—History—Edward VII, 1901–1910. 2. Great Britain—History—George V, 1910–1936. 3. Great Britain—History—George VI, 1936–1952. I. Title.
DA566.W54 2005
941.082’3—dc22
2005051866
Originally published in Great Britain by Hutchinson
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