Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
Chatto & Windus (2009), Hardcover, 496 pages
Description
Shares the story of a turn-of-the-nineteenth-century social chronicler, from her early years among the French and British nobility to her first-hand witness to such events as the demise of the French monarchy and the Reign of Terror.
Media reviews
Though there is no shortage of chroniclers of the French Revolution... “Dancing to the Precipice” brings to the story a gruesome immediacy and an elegant sense of the absurd.
User reviews
LibraryThing member lorespar
Take me to another place, and another time. Sometimes looking back at other more violent times in history makes me feel not so terrible about our own times.
The aristocracy is weakened, and the masses have risen. The French Revolution is so important as a symbol of nationalism. I loved this book!
The aristocracy is weakened, and the masses have risen. The French Revolution is so important as a symbol of nationalism. I loved this book!
Awards
Costa Book Awards (Shortlist — Biography — 2009)
Spear's Book Award (Shortlist — Biography — 2009)
Physical description
496 p.
ISBN
070117904X / 9780701179045
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