Child's History of England
Child's History of England
Charles Dickens, the master of Victorian storytelling, turns his formidable powers to the history of England - and the result is anything but a dusty textbook. Written for his own children and published in serial form between 1851 and 1853, this history crackles with the same dramatic flair that made his novels unforgettable. From the Roman conquest through the reign of Charles II, Dickens narrates the rise and fall of kings with the energy of a playwright, making tyrants vivid and martyrs memorable. He detests cruelty with a passion that still feels urgent, and his contempt for brutal monarchs burns on every page. This is history as Dickens lived it: moral, theatrical, and unapologetically opinionated. It stands as a remarkable artifact of how one of the greatest storytellers in the English language taught history to the next generation - and how that history still resonates.
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Lizzie Driver, Joshua B. Christensen, Laura Koskinen, Sarah Jennings +10 more
