A Half-Century of GreatnessChoice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 A Half Century of Greatness paints a vivid and dramatic picture of the creative thought of mid to late nineteenth century Europe and the influence of the unsuccessful revolutions of 1848. It reveals often unexpected links between novelists, poets, and philosophers from England, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraineespecially Dickens, Carlyle, Mill, the Bronts, and George Eliot; Hegel, Strauss,