Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution - Softcover

Scurr, Ruth

 
9780099458982: Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
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ISBN 10: 0099458985 ISBN 13: 9780099458982
Verlag: Vintage, 2007

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'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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den 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.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099458985
ISBN 13 
9780099458982
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416
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