Reflections on the Revolution in France

Author: Edmund Burke

Brand: Penguin

Color: Grey

Edition: Reprint

Features:

• Penguin Classics

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 400

Release Date: 01-06-1982

model number: 9780140432046

Part Number: 9780140432046

Details: Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs, argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary change - and deplores the influence Burke feared the revolution might have in Britain. Reflections on the Revolution in France is now widely regarded as a classic statement of conservative political thought, and is one of the eighteenth century's great works of political rhetoric.

EAN: 9780140432046

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches

Languages: English