- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Hippo (19 Mar 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 043995438X
- ISBN-13: 978-0439977401
- ASIN: 0439977401
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.4 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 525,875 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Terry revisits one of the best-selling subjects on the list, and gives us more of the grim truth about the nasty nineteenth century.
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'The Villainous Victorians lets you in on the darkest secrets of Queen Victoria's Britain ...'
22 Mar 2007
Format:Paperback
...from hard-living criminal kids to harder-hearted toffs who were criminally cruel.
In the dark days of Queen Victoria, who were the 'real' villains? The poor, pilfering people of the slums? Or the mean, miserly men in their massive mansions? And how would YOU have got on in those terrible times?
Teachers may tell you Victoria's Britain was an exciting place......but it was a time of cruelty and wickedness.
What you need is a book that tells you the other side of the story - the `villainous' Victorians .............
Read on for prisoners, poisoners and Peelers and some devious dodges for making money that you SHOULDN'T try.
Find out about the famous and the forgotten Victorians, then discover who tops the charts as the biggest villain of them all!
History has never been so horrible!'
A witty, colourful cover opens to 127 pages, split over chapters:
1. Terrible timeline 1830s-1840s
2. Cruel criminals
3. Cruel to kids
4. Hanging around
5. Terrible timeline 1850s - 1860s
6. Mr Peel's pained police
7. Wicked for women
8. Foul fun
9. Terrible timeline 1870s - 1890s
10. Talk like a villainous Victorian
11. Criminal cures
12. Test your teacher
13. Top ten villainous Victorians
with an introduction and an epilogue.
Written with the typical Deary humour, in a variety of fonts, and superb illustrations/cartoons throughout, from Martin Brown.
In the dark days of Queen Victoria, who were the 'real' villains? The poor, pilfering people of the slums? Or the mean, miserly men in their massive mansions? And how would YOU have got on in those terrible times?
Teachers may tell you Victoria's Britain was an exciting place......but it was a time of cruelty and wickedness.
What you need is a book that tells you the other side of the story - the `villainous' Victorians .............
Read on for prisoners, poisoners and Peelers and some devious dodges for making money that you SHOULDN'T try.
Find out about the famous and the forgotten Victorians, then discover who tops the charts as the biggest villain of them all!
History has never been so horrible!'
A witty, colourful cover opens to 127 pages, split over chapters:
1. Terrible timeline 1830s-1840s
2. Cruel criminals
3. Cruel to kids
4. Hanging around
5. Terrible timeline 1850s - 1860s
6. Mr Peel's pained police
7. Wicked for women
8. Foul fun
9. Terrible timeline 1870s - 1890s
10. Talk like a villainous Victorian
11. Criminal cures
12. Test your teacher
13. Top ten villainous Victorians
with an introduction and an epilogue.
Written with the typical Deary humour, in a variety of fonts, and superb illustrations/cartoons throughout, from Martin Brown.
Format:Paperback
Great book for grandchildren - I bought a number of 'Horrible Hustory Books' for my Grandson who loves them - kept hin away from the Wii all day
Format:Paperback
Terry Deary shows in this book how he still a brilliant author after 10 years writing the Horrible Histories books.In Villainious Victorians, Terry revisits the Victorian era,telling us more fatual facts about that time,such as how was the Victorians life,with the chapters:Cruel Criminals,Cruel To Kids,Hanging Around,Mr. Peel's pained police,Wicked for Women,Foul Fun,Talk Like A Villainious Victorian,Criminal Cures,Test your Teacher,Top Ten Villainious Victorians and the Terrible Timeline.
It also tells you:
-Why Burglers were scared of bogies?
-Which poet said he ate an ape?
-How a snick fadger might kiddy-nap your spangle?
-What's a garroter?
The illustrations of Martin Brown are perfect and complement the text with jokes.
It also tells you:
-Why Burglers were scared of bogies?
-Which poet said he ate an ape?
-How a snick fadger might kiddy-nap your spangle?
-What's a garroter?
The illustrations of Martin Brown are perfect and complement the text with jokes.
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