The French Revolution (3v.) - Folio Society edition

The French Revolution (3v.)

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The French Revolution (3v.) - Folio Society edition
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The French Revolution (3v.)
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The French Revolution (3v.)

Thomas Carlyle
Edition year 1989
Binding Cloth
Volumes 3
Weight 3 Kg
Pages Vol. 1: 276; Vol. 2: 294; Vol. 3: 346
Dimensions 22.7 × 16.1 cm

Edition details

The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle (3v.) Introduction by Richard Cobb, with sixteen leaves of contemporary paintings and etchings in each volume. Full dark brown and red cloth decorated in gold, endleaves printed in black. Red three-volume slipcase titled in gold. 22.7 x 16.1 cm. 276/294/346 pp.

About the book

Carlyle wrote his French Revolution as a secular ‘tract for the times' and as a warning for his compatriots of the frightful consequences of materialism, utilitarianism and democracy. Scottish puritanism and German romanticism were his lodestars; ‘History is the essence of innumerable biographies' was his historical creed. The result is not a work of scholarship but a prose epic, teeming with colourful scenes of dramatic events and imaginative portraits of the leading revolutionaries. The book at once captured the English-speaking world, and has, outside France, moulded popular conceptions of the French Revolution down to the present day.

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