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Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke author Conor O'Brien editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:30th Sep '82

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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.

ISBN: 9780140432046

Dimensions: 199mm x 139mm x 22mm

Weight: 307g

416 pages