Fatal Purity - Robespierre and the French Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Ruth Scurr is an historian, biographer and literary critic. She teaches history and politics at Cambridge University, where she is a Lecturer and Fellow of Gonville & Caius College. Her first book, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and was listed among the 100 Best Books of the Decade in The Times . She reviews regularly for the Times Literary Supplement , The Telegraph and the Wall Street Journal . Klappentext 'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesRobespierre was only thirty-six when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him. Zusammenfassung 'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesRobespierre was only thirty-six when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Scurr, Scurr Ruth
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.04.2007
• EAN: 9780099458982
• ISBN: 978-0-09-945898-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Vintage; Vintage
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, c 1789 to c 1799 (French Revolutionary period), Biography: historical, political and military, French Revolution