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Language: English
Published by Metropolitan Books, 2006
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- Title
- Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
- Author
- Scurr, Ruth
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Books
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0805079874
- ISBN 13
- 9780805079876
A compelling biography of a key figure of the French Revolution captures the paradoxical life of Maximilien Robespierre, from his beginnings as a provincial lawyer, to his rise to power as a revolutionary leader, to his eventual end on the guillotine that had taken the lives of so many during the Terror that he had orchestrated. 35,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Born in 1971, Ruth Scurr studied at Oxford and Cambridge, where she currently teaches politics and history. A prominent literary critic, she has written for The New York Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement. Fatal Purity is her first book.
Born in 1971, Ruth Scurr studied at Oxford and Cambridge, where she currently teaches politics and history. A prominent literary critic, she has written for The New York Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement. Fatal Purity is her first book.
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