The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle - ISBN: 9780375760228
Paperback
Revolutionary history ablaze: a thrilling, poetic, and factual masterpiece.

The French Revolution

A History

  • Paperback

    848 pages

  • Release Date

    15 May 2002

Summary

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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780375760228
ISBN-10:0375760229
Author:Thomas Carlyle, John D. Rosenberg
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Modern Library Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:848
Edition:New edition
Release Date:15 May 2002
Weight:686g
Dimensions:202mm x 133mm x 45mm
Series:Modern Library Classics
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Critics Review

“No novelist has made his creations live for us more thoroughly than Carlyle has made the men of the French Revolution.” -George Eliot

“No novelist has made his creations live for us more thoroughly than Carlyle has made the men of the French Revolution.” —George Eliot

About The Author

Thomas Carlyle

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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