VICTORIA: A LIFE

Book ID/图书代码： 00200014B73745

English Summary/英文概要： When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff widow, paraded as the figurehead to an all-male imperial enterprise. But in truth, Britain’s longest reigning monarch was one of the most passionate, expressive, humorous and unconventional women who ever lived, and the story of her life continues to fascinate. A. N. Wilson’s exhaustively researched and definitive biography includes a wealth of new material from previously unseen sources, to show us Queen Victoria as she’s never been seen before. It explores the curious set of circumstances that led to Victoria’s coronation, her strange and isolated childhood, her passionate marriage, Prince Albert’s pivotal influence, her widowhood and subsequent intimate friendship with John Brown, set against the backdrop of this momentous epoch in Britain - and Europe’s - history. Victoria is a towering achievement; a masterpiece of biography by a writer at the height of his powers.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 维多利亚女王到1901年去世时，她已经统治了近六十四年。她是九个孩子的母亲，四十二个孙子的奶奶，是欧洲王室的女族长，掌控着孩子们的婚姻。对许多人来说，维多利亚女王是一个笼罩在神秘中的统治者，——一个年老，古板的寡妇，是这个男性为主的帝国有名无实的同龄。但事实上，她是英国在位时间最长的君主，也是最热情的，富有表现力，幽默和非传统的女人之一，她的生活故事也将继续吸引着世人。A.N.威尔逊的这本详尽和明确的传记，包含了以前从未面世的丰富新材料，向我们展示了维多利亚女王从未见示人的一面。本书探讨了导致了维多利亚的加冕，她的奇怪和孤立的童年，以及她充满激情的婚姻的奇妙环境，探讨了在英国和欧洲的历史这一重大的时代背景下艾伯特王子举足轻重的影响，她的寡居，随后与约翰•布朗的亲密友谊。《维多利亚》是一个杰出的成就；一本由优秀作家所写的杰出传记。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：以前很少有传记作家像威尔逊一样将她刻画的淋漓尽致…平滑地处理了女王漫长的岁月。他在这本平衡的传记中带来的非常详细的描述不仅加强了女王在英国政府历史上的意义，也成功给一般读者传达了威尔逊所分享的人物的所有细微差别。——布拉德•胡珀，书目，主演审查。

Few if any previous biographers have viewed her as incisively and absorbingly as Wilson does in his... smoothly flowing treatment of the queen’s long life. The considerable detail he brings to his greatly balanced portrait not only strengthens his estimation of the significance of the queen in British governmental history but also successfully conveys for the general reader all the nuances of character that Wilson so carefully shares. --Brad Hooper, Booklist, starred review

[A] splendid biography - this book is a gem: thoughtful, witty, insightful, striking a balance between political commentary and personal gossip... As this terrific biography shows, there really was a human being behind the gloomy portraits. -- Dominic Sandbrook * Evening Standard * Subtle, thoughtful ... a shimmering and rather wonderful biography -- Kathryn Hughes * Guardian * Wilson is affectionately alert to the rich contradictions of his subject’s personality, and his deliciously readable biography becomes increasingly fascinating as Victoria’s reign unfolds. -- Jane Shilling * Daily Mail - Book of the Week * This superb revisionist biography is the book that he was born to write. Wilson clearly loves and admires his subject, but this is a critical biography - funny, insightful, original and authoritative. At last Victoria has been rescued from her widow’s weeds. -- Jane Ridley * Spectator * A. N. Wilson brings his novelist’s perception and immense knowledge of the era to his effervescent biography of the tiny woman (4ft 11in) who ruled Britain for 61 years... This won’t be the last biography of Victoria but it is certainly the most interesting and original in a long time. -- Daisy Goodwin * Sunday Times * Ninety-five years ago, the standard was set by Lytton Strachey’s lucid and moving Queen Victoria but A. N. Wilson has now raised the bar... And what a pity she never met A. N. Wilson: she shines in his company ... [this] expansive and victorious book. -- Frances Wilson * Daily Telegraph * A. N. Wilson has written a sympathetic but by no means hagiographic biography of her that will probably overturn many people’s prejudiced conception of her... Wilson’s picture of her is a rounded one, with her vices and virtues. -- Theodore Dalrymple * The Times * A biographer of Queen Victoria also needs to be a good historian, with a confident grasp of the personalities and issues of 19th-century public life. Mr Wilson is at his best here... This is a bracing biography of a bracing woman ... it undeniably achieves its central aim to make us take Queen Victoria more seriously. -- Michael Hall * Country Life * Wilson is an excellent history teacher. He orders and narrates the hugely complex socio-political events and party infighting of the 19th century with a rare clarity... His own achievement, sustained by a lifetime’s scholarly fascination with the Victorian era, is also in its way, awesome. -- John Sutherland * Financial Times * Few if any previous biographers have viewed her as incisively and absorbingly as Wilson does in his... smoothly flowing treatment of the queen’s long life. The considerable detail he brings to his greatly balanced portrait not only strengthens his estimation of the significance of the queen in British governmental history but also successfully conveys for the general reader all the nuances of character that Wilson so carefully shares. -- Brad Hooper * Booklist, starred review *

About the Author/作者介绍： A.N.威尔逊在斯塔福德郡长大，毕业于牛津橄榄球和新学院。他是英国皇家文学协会会员，在文学和世界新闻领域有突出地位。他是一个多产的和屡获殊荣的传记作家和著名的小说家。他住在伦敦北部。

A. N. Wilson grew up in Staffordshire and was educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is a prolific and award-winning biographer and celebrated novelist. He lives in North London.

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