The French Revolution
The classic history of the origins, events, and results of the French Revolution from 1774 to 1795.
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| Interest Age |
All ages |
| Reading Age |
All ages |
| Library of Congress |
France - History - Revolution, 1789-1799., France - History - Louis XVI, 1774-1793. |
| NBS Text |
Regional History |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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| Number of Pages |
848 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 134mm
Height: 180mm
Spine: 30mm |
| Weight |
591g |
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| Dewey Code |
944.04 |
| Catalogue Code |
100423 |
Description of this Book
The book that established Thomas Carlyle's reputation when first published in 1837, this spectacular historical masterpiece has since been accepted as the standard work on the subject. It combines a shrewd insight into character, a vivid realization of the picturesque, and a singular ability to bring the past to blazing life, making it a reading experience as thrilling as any novel. As John D. Rosenberg observes in his Introduction, The French Revolution is one of the grand poems of Carlyle's] century, yet its poetry consists in being everywhere scrupulously rooted in historical fact. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition, complete and unabridged, is unavailable anywhere else.
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Awards & Reviews
| NZ Review |
No novelist has made his creations live for us more thoroughly than Carlyle has made the men of the French Revolution. -- George Eliot |
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Author's Bio
John D. Rosenberg is the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English at Columbia University, where he teaches Victorian literature and has chaired the undergraduate program in literature humanities. He is the author of The Darkening Glass: A Portrait of Ruskin's Genius; The Fall of Camelot: A Study of Tennyson's Idylls of the King ; and Carlyle and the Burden of History.
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