The French Revolution – Thomas Carlyle (1900)

S$225.00

The French Revolution – Thomas Carlyle (1900)

S$225.00

Title: The French Revolution: A History

Author: Thomas Carlyle

Publisher: A. L. Burt, New York. No date, research reveals it to be between 1890-1910.

Condition: Half leather, marbled boards. Very good. Slight rubbing to leather, with very slight bleeding to rubbed parts. Edges tanned. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispieces. Text clean, binding tight. Overseas shipping will cost extra.

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About the book (from Wikipedia):

The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle. The work, first published in 1837 (with a revised edition in print by 1857), charts the course of the French Revolution from 1789 to the height of the Reign of Terror (1793–94) and culminates in 1795. A massive undertaking which draws together a wide variety of sources, Carlyle’s history—despite the unusual style in which it is written—is considered to be an authoritative account of the early course of the Revolution.

As a historical account, The French Revolution has been both enthusiastically praised and bitterly criticized for its style of writing, which is highly unorthodox within historiography. Where most professional historians attempt to assume a neutral, detached tone of writing, or a semi-official style in the tradition of Thomas Babington Macaulay, Carlyle unfolds his history by often writing in present-tense first-person plural as though he and the reader were observers, indeed almost participants, on the streets of Paris at the fall of the Bastille or the public execution of Louis XVI. This, naturally, involves the reader by simulating the history itself instead of solely recounting historical events.