All Sorts and Conditions of Men: An Impossible Story

Consistently setting itself against the cheerless evangelical strain in Victorian philanthropy, All Sorts and Conditions of Men offers a blueprint for the cultural regeneration of Britain''s proletariat as Angela and Harry plan a `Palace of Delight'' to provide `a little more of the pleasures and graces of life'' for the East Enders they have come to know. Indeed, five years after the book''s publ...