Fatal Purity. Signed Copy.

Scurr, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0701176008 ISBN 13: 9780701176006

Editorial: Chatto & Windus, 2006

Idioma: Ingl�s

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Black cloth in a colour pictorial dw; black & white and colour plates.Blind signed by author title page. Subtitled: 'Robespierre and the French Revolution'.

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T�tulo

Fatal Purity. Signed Copy.

Editor

Chatto & Windus

Fecha de publicaci�n

2006

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0701176008

ISBN 13

9780701176006

Encuadernaci�n

Hardcover

Edici�n

1st Edition

Impresi�n

1st Printing

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Very Good

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Very Good

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705 kilogramos

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Signed by Author(s)

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Robespierre was only 36 when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him. Only a few months before, this pale and fragile man, formal, anxious to the point of paranoia, steeled by deep-held principles, had held centre place in the new Festival of the Supreme Being, wearing his sky-blue coat and decreeing a new religion for France. 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'; even his friends found him hard to understand. Ruth Scurr sheds a dazzling 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. No backdrop can match the French revolution: it burns with human interest. As Scurr says, 'More than haunting, it obsesses, because it will not lie down and die'. Her brilliant, probing narrative brings the Revolution and its chilling hero to fiery life once again, helping us to understand how ideals and fanaticism can so often go hand in hand, as they still do today.

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Born in 1971, Ruth Scurr is an historian of Political Thought, specialising in eighteenth-century France. She teaches at the University of Cambridge, and is a regular reviewer for The Times and the Times Literary Supplement. This is her first book.

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