The French Revolution: A History
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The French Revolution: A History
By (Author) Thomas Carlyle
Introduction by John D. Rosenberg
Random House USA Inc
Modern Library Inc
15th May 2002
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Revolutionary groups and movements
Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions
944.04
Physical Properties
Paperback
848
Width 132mm, Height 201mm, Spine 46mm
675g
Description
The book that established Thomas Carlyles 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 [Carlyles] century, yet its poetry consists in being everywhere scrupulously rooted in historical fact.
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Reviews
No novelist has made his creations live for us more thoroughly than Carlyle has made the men of the French Revolution. George Eliot
Author 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 Ruskins Genius; The Fall of Camelot: A Study of Tennysons Idylls of the King; and Carlyle and the Burden of History.
