The French Revolution - (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Carlyle (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Complete and unabridged"--P. [4] of cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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, <i>The French Revolution</i> is "one of the grand poems of [Carlyle's] century, yet its poetry consists in being everywhere scrupulously rooted in historical fact." <p/>This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition, complete and unabridged, is unavailable anywhere else.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"No novelist has made his creations live for us more thoroughly than Carlyle has made the men of the French Revolution." --<b>George Eliot</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>John D. Rosenberg</b> 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<i> The Darkening Glass: A Portrait of Ruskin's Genius; The Fall of Camelot: A Study of Tennyson's "Idylls of the King";</i> and <i>Carlyle and the Burden of History</i>.
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