Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #342099 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

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Customer Reviews

Save pennies with this `Two Books under One Cover` edition!
A witty, colourful hardback cover opens to 256 pages, written with the typical Deary humour, in a variety of fonts, and superb illustrations/cartoons throughout, from Martin Brown.

More detailed reviews are given on the individual book titles but here is a summary:-

`The Vile Victorians' gives you the dire details of Victorian life for everyone- from children in the monstrous mines and savage schools to the vile Victorian Queen herself.

`The Gorgeous Georgians' tells you about the people who lived in these riotous times.
Find out about lords and ladies with a personal hygiene problem, outrageous outlaws and pitiful peasants.

Read on for curious quizzes, rotten recipes, gruesome games and terrible tests.........for your teacher!
History has never been so horrible!'

`Two Horrible Books in One', from the `Dynamic Duo' of Terry Deary and Martin Brown......
`The Gorgeous Georgians' and `The Vile Victorians'

The usual Deary humour flows through the 256 pages packed with facts, written in a variety of fonts and full of black and white illustrations and cartoons, from Martin Brown.

The Gorgeous Georgians
Split into 10 chapters with an introduction, a timeline, a `Test Your Teacher' section and an epilogue.

The Vile Victorians
Split into 10 chapters with an introduction, a timeline and an epilogue.

`Read on for curious quizzes, rotten recipes, gruesome games and terrible tests........for you teacher!
History has never been so horrible!'

`History is horrible. For a start, everybody in history is dead. Some are very dead indeed. Of course history teachers don't tell you this, do they?
And then the teacher drones on about boring battles and dusty dates. What you really want to know is the really interesting stuff. How did people live....and how did they die?
For example, teacher may tell you that in the age of King George III, Britain won the Battle of Waterloo (thanks to a man in Wellington's boots). But you really want to know about what happened `after' the battle, don't you?............'

A very good read that I couldn't put down
This book tells you about alot of things you didn't know about the Victorians and the Georgians.I would recomend this double book to anyone.