Curdle is informed that Nicholas Nickleby is the author of the new play in which the Infant Phenomenon is to appear, he expresses the hope that the young dramatist has “ preserved the unities.” ...

At the present stage of human progress the nation is the living collective unit of humanity. When an empire like Austria, a non-national empire, is broken to pieces, it perishes for good.

Drawing on art, literature, facts, landscapes and political dramas, it reveals the false unities and real disunities of the UK, past and present. By the end, one marvels and wonders how this ...