Citizens - Simon Schama

Category: Adults, History, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: 1789 French Revolution

Written by Simon Schama
Read by Sara Powell
Format: M4B
Unabridged

Instead of a dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital & inventive, infatuated with novelty & technology. A fresh view of Louis XVI’s France. A NY Times cloth bestseller.

In this New York Times best seller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology - a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI’s France.

One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution ever produced.

‘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 thoughtful, informed and profoundly revisionist’
Eugen Weber, The New York Times Book Review

‘The most marvellous book I have read about the French Revolution’
Richard Cobb, The 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’
Bernard Levin, Sunday Times

‘Provides an unrivalled impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of events’
Antony Beevor, Express