CITIZENS: A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION – Buy it here
One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Simon Schama’s Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution ever produced.
Winner of the NCR Book Award
‘Monumental…provocative and stylish, Simon Schama’s account of the first few years of the great Revolution in France, and of the decades that led up to it, is hard to put down’
– The New York Times Book Review
‘I have read nothing to compare with Simon Schama’s epic Citizens, which plunges the reader headlong into those violent years of “universal ferment”‘
– Sunday Times
‘Dazzling…beyond praise…He has chronicled the vicissitudes of that world with matchless understanding, wisdom, pity and truth, in the pages of this marvellous book’
–Sunday Times
‘Admiration and pleasure are owing to Simon Schama’s learned gusto…the humaneness of his verdicts…a formidable, often heart-warming achievement’
– New Yorker
‘An astonishing tour de force…Thsi extraordinary book…identifies and conveys the essence of the Revolution, the key to its appeal, the secret of its power, and the reason for its eventual failure: violence’
– Independent
‘Stunning…Fizzing with vitality and insight, bubbling over with ideas and perceptions, buzzing with gossip, anecdote and a sense of drama’
– The Times Literary Supplement
PUBLISHER: Penguin
PUBLICATION DATE: May 1989
