Desmond

by Charlotte Turner Smith and Smith

Book Overview

Desmondis a political novel about the French Revolution. It is Charlotte Smith's only epistolary work, and it is her most politically radical piece. Written in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolutionin France, Smith's Desmond fuses political discussion with romance, social satire and a suspenseful plot revolving around a liberal hero desperately in love with a woman who is married to a drunken anti-revolutionary. Whereas Burke represented...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551112744
• ISBN13: 9781551112749
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.