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 Times Robespierre was only thirty-six when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him. Robespierre and the Revolution were inseparable: a single inflexible tyrant. But what turned a shy young lawyer into the living embodiment of the Terror at its most violent? Admirers called him 'the great incorruptible'; critics dubbed him a 'monster', a 'bloodthirsty charlatan'. Ruth Scurr sheds new light on this puzzle, tracing Robespierre's life from a troubled childhood in provincial Arras to the passionate idealist, fighting for the rights of the people, and sweeping on to the implacable leader prepared to sign the death warrant for his closest friends. 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: 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