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The French Revolution (Oxford World's Classics)

by Thomas Carlyle (Author), David R. Sorensen (Editor), Brent E. Kinser (Editor),
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Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774 and ends with Napoleon suppressing the insurrection of the 13th Vendemaire. Both in its form and content, the work was intended as a revolt against history writing itself, with Carlyle exploding the eighteenth-century conventions of dignified gentlemanly discourse. Immersing himself in his French sources with unprecedented imaginative and intellectual engagement, he recreates the upheaval in a language that evokes the chaotic atmosphere of the events. In the French Revolution Carlyle achieves the most vivid historical reconstruction of the crisis of his, or any other, age.

This new edition offers an authoritative text, a comprehensive record of Carlyle's French, English, and German sources, a select bibliography of editions, related writings, and critical studies, chronologies of both Thomas Carlyle and the French Revolution, and a new and full index. In addition, Carlyle's work is placed in the context of both British and European history and writing, and linked to a variety of major figures, including Edward Gibbon, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, Hegel, and R. G. Collingwood.
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  1. ISBN-10
    019881559X
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0198815594
  3. Publisher
    Oxford University Press
  4. Publication date
    April 1, 2019
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    7.9 x 1.7 x 5 inches
  7. Print length
    944 pages
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"This edition makes the work decipherable in ways it otherwise isn't." -- Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal

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A work of tremendous narrative and descriptive power, Caryle's book was also a revolution in its approach to the writing of history.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (April 1, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 944 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 019881559X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198815594
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.9 x 1.7 x 5 inches
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Mazda 6
5.0 out of 5 stars Difficult and challenging but worth the effort!
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2017
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I avoided this book for a long time because of its length and difficult language, but needed a comprehensive overview of the revolution to fit together all the bits and pieces of knowledge I had about it. It takes effort to read this book but it's well worth it! It is a classic, for good reason. It gives you an "insider's" view of the whole thing. It's not intended for casual reading entertainment but neither is it boring like reading an encyclopedia. I have a much better understanding now of the people, politics, events, causes and consequences of this violent episode of history. It is interesting, interpretive, factual and action packed! Such cruel, unjust,brutal and violent turmoil makes one thank God that we didn't have to live through it!
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Des Fourie
4.0 out of 5 stars Thomas Carlyle recorded the events of the French Revolution reliably, his book is worth reading
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2019
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Thomas Carlyle carried out months or perhaps years of research in an attempt to establish the truth. Even fifty years after the events of this momentous change in France and it's effects on the world as a whole many of the facts had been concealed, or never divulged and against this background he did his best to establish this classic record.
This e version of his book available from Amazon is poorly prepared and hence overpriced but at least legible.
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david conn
5.0 out of 5 stars A RIVETING HONEST EFFORT TO REVEAL THE TUMULTUOUS EVENTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2013
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Like the ringing tocsin the politics behind the French Revolution have reverberated throughout the many years since those tumultuous times. If anything it teaches us that we must be fair minded and considerate of the views of others at all times less we too follow in the footsteps of tyranny. Mr. Calyle's history of the French Revolution accomplishes this as he strives to be fair to all sides. He achieves this while comprehensively describing as complete a picture as humanly possible of events that deeply touched the lives of nearly everybody in France and most of Europe. To understand the difficulty of his task consider the fact that 21st Century writers must still use caution when writing in detail about the events of 1789-1794. Mr. Carlyle wrote his history in a time when the events of the French Revolution was still a not so distant past. Yet, he dealt carefully but thoroughly with the subject matter while striving to be honest and accurate. He did it well.
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Daniel Cramer
5.0 out of 5 stars History on a grand scale.
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2014
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It may require using the dictionary because of Carlyle's picturesque language. But it is well-worth the effort. I remembered reading part of it in college over 50 years ago. It stuck with me and I decided to go back to it and read from cover to cover. Dickens based his A Tale of Two Cities on Carlyle's account.
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3.0 out of 5 stars In the language of the time
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2013
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Dense strange language, meandering sentences, almost impenatrable. Free, though makes it a nice thing to add to the collection to make sure you always have something to read.
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Gentleman Jim
1.0 out of 5 stars Book for French Scholars
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2012
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This book is not meant for someone like me. I don't speak/read French. I do not have an intimate knowledge of the history of France before and during the French revolution. Having those prerequisites, it may indeed be a good book. For someone such as I who was looking for a readable history it was not good. It was one of the few books that I just could not continue with. The style was overwhelming. The many French names that one who was intimate with French history probably knew were overwhelming. This was not a book for a novice such as myself.
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2.0 out of 5 stars no introduction and very poor chapter titling
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2016
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This book was obviously a reprint of an earlier edition, and not at all well done. It includes no spine title, no verbiage about the book on the back, no copyright page, no table of contents, no page numbers,no introduction and very poor chapter titling. The book itself is a very difficult read, often full of unwarranted and inconsequential verbiage. I left the book prior to the beginning of the revolution because I was looking for facts, not philosophy. I would NOT recommend this book to anyone.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
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Not for everyone. A bit hard to follow.
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michael kapitzke
1.0 out of 5 stars Hard to read.
Reviewed in Canada on June 8, 2023
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Hard to read. Small type; smaller than 10pts.Compacted sentences and paragraphs.Requires a good pair of reading glasses.
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Vivek K.
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice book.
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A good handbook for the knowledge pf French revolution.
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John Green
4.0 out of 5 stars Worth the wait
Reviewed in France on March 5, 2017
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Having waited years to read this it is satisfying to have another and import ant perspective on this turbulent period of history.
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George Gordon
5.0 out of 5 stars The best history of the revolution
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 2, 2013
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....but not for beginners, and not for those wanting a clinical, or been particularly accurate history either. Read Simon Schama's "Citizens" to get to grips with what actually happened in the French Revolution, and then read Carlyle for an unbelievably (melo)dramatic, raw, urgent account of how it felt to witness this terrifying event from England, even at a distance of half a century. If you know the bare bones of the history Carlyle's language isn't anything like as much of a barrier as the other Amazon reviews would suggest, so give it a go. Just read it at half the speed you would read any other Victorian book - in some ways it is more like reading a Shakespearian play than a history. It is one of the greatest books written in the English language - part history, part play, part novel - and no lover of literature should miss it.
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Marcus Cowen
4.0 out of 5 stars I can definitely recommend it.
Reviewed in Australia on October 1, 2015
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Very over the top prose from the author, but it keeps the book interesting and moving along. I did get a sense of the historical context and the research for the book was obviously thorough. I can definitely recommend it.
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