A. N. Wilson is an English writer, newspaper columnist and skeptic known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history and atheism. His critically acclaimed non-fiction have topped bestseller lists. A. N. Wilson's writings have been applauded in popular media and academia.
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C. S. Lewis: A Biography
by A. N. Wilson
This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis.C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and great hostility. This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the clever child from the ‘Little End Room’ of his Ulster childhood and adult life, exploring...
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Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy
by A. N. Wilson
In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the royal consort’s birth.For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of...
When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would occur over the next fifty years, both in Britain and around the world. In Our Times, A. N. Wilson takes the reader on an exhilarating journey through postwar Britain. With his...
"In Wilson's hands these familiar stories make for gripping reading."—The New York Times Book ReviewNew York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAuthor of Dante in LoveA sweeping panorama of the Elizabethan age, a time of remarkable, strange personages and great political and social change, by one of our most renowned historiansA time of...
For William Butler Yeats, Dante Alighieri was "the chief imagination of Christendom." For T. S. Eliot, he was of supreme importance, both as poet and philosopher. Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem "Ulysses" on lines from the Inferno. Byron chastised an "Ungrateful Florence" for...
“[A] shimmering and rather wonderful biography.” —The GuardianWhen Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was the mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe through her children’s marriages. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique, an aging...
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