Reflections on the revolution in France : and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event

Responsibility: Edmund Burke ; edited with an introduction by Conor Cruise O'Brien.
Imprint: Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin, 1984, c1969.
Physical description: 400 p. ; 18 cm.
Series: Penguin English library.

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Bibliography: Bibliography: p. [399]-400.
Summary: Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs, argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary change - and deplores the influence Burke feared the revolution might have in Britain. "Reflections on the Revolution in France" is now widely regarded as a classic statement of conservative political thought, and is one of the eighteenth century's great works of political rhetoric.
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