The French Revolution (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) [NOOK Book]

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A groundbreaking work of history (and, incidentally, the primary resource for Charles Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities) Carlyle’s French Revolution explains momentous historical change as resulting from the leadership of heroic individuals. The immediacy of Carlyle’s prose—in which past events are often recounted in the present tense—makes for riveting reading.

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The French Revolution (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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Overview

A groundbreaking work of history (and, incidentally, the primary resource for Charles Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities) Carlyle’s French Revolution explains momentous historical change as resulting from the leadership of heroic individuals. The immediacy of Carlyle’s prose—in which past events are often recounted in the present tense—makes for riveting reading.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781411437111
  • Publisher: Barnes & Noble
  • Publication date: 2/8/2011
  • Series: Barnes & Noble Digital Library
  • Sold by: Sterling Publishing
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 299,109
  • File size: 1,017 KB

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Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, satirist, and political thinker. He became influential for Victorians because his writing reflected Calvinist values but also a loss of faith, which paralleled the community’s changing scientific and political views.

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  • Posted July 21, 2009

    I Also Recommend:

    The French Revolution, 1787-1799: From the Storming of the Bastille to Napoleon
    The French Revolution, Volume 2: From 1793 to 1799
    A Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799
    The Coming of the French Revolution
    The Sans-Culottes: The Popular Movement and Revolutionary Government, 1793-1794

    Extraordinary

    This extraordinary work is more like a film scenario than a modern history. Its flashes of lightning pick out and illuminate dramatic scenes, vividly portrayed, like King Louis' doomed flight to Varennes. Carlyle famously described 'the incorruptible sea-green Robespierre'.

    Carlyle acknowledges, contrary to convention, "there is no period to be met with, in which the general Twenty-five Millions of France suffered less than in this period which they name Reign of Terror."

    He praises the revolution as "Surely a great phenomenon: nay it is a transcendental one, overstepping all rules and experience; the crowning phenomenon of our Modern Time."

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 11, 2013

    To read or not to read?

    I want to learn more about the french revoulution and im a kid. Is this book good for a kid to read?

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 18, 2012

    EPIC!!!

    Will write more when I have finished book.

    0 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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