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Unanimous acclaim for the Australian Booker Prize-winner's update of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations . "An audacious and wholly successful act of writerly reinvention" (Marc Carnegie, the Wall Street Journal ). Reviewers praise the way Carey re-examines the oppressive aspects of Victorian England and Victorian literature, even as he spins a crack adventure story.
Borak was a negative in the Victorian language Wathawurung and was one of a comparatively small number of words which the Aboriginal languages collectively contributed to an on-the-whole short-lived Australian pidgin.
On the hilltop further up the same winding road, over 450 m (1,500 ft) above sea level, is the Palácio da Pena, an outrageous Victorian folly built in 1840.
The stately elevator, a 1902 Victorian marvel of iron and glass, was built by Raul Mesnier (not Gustave Eiffel, as many continue to believe).
In this book Sacks makes it clear how much this owes to the works he read as a child, how the passion, clarity, and warmth of Victorian botanists and zoologists--Darwin above all--formed his imagination.