Status
Available
Collection
Publication
Simon and Schuster (1967), Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Description
A history of Europe during much of the eighteenth century that concentrates on the French Revolution and the beginnings of the Romantic movement.
Subjects
Awards
Pulitzer Prize (Winner — General Non-Fiction — 1968)
Original publication date
1967
User reviews
LibraryThing member jburlinson
I read this when it first came out, as a junior in High School. I liked it well enough. It certainly held my interest, but this may have been less to do with the quality of the book than with Rousseau's more perverse inclinations, which is really all I that I can recall about this large book. For
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all its merits, I didn't choose to look any further into this series. That was likely because I was a great snob, intellectually speaking, and somehow I had gotten the impression that the Durants were regarded as distinctly middle-brow by the grand conventicle of scholars. So I probably did myself out of a good deal of useful information, packaged in a manner that I was particularly endowed to appreciate. Show Less
LibraryThing member KirkLowery
One must not forget that Durant won a Pulitzer Prize for this volume.
LibraryThing member DinadansFriend
A masterly survey of European History and culture from the 1770's to the dawn of the French revolution. Perhaps showing too great an emphasis on philosophy, but if you only read one book on the period...