Download or read book The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume VIII: The French Revolution 1790-1794 written by Edmund Burke and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1990-03-01 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first edition of Burke's famous Reflections on the Revolution in France to appear for twenty years. No edition of his other writings on the Revolution has appeared for almost a century. In these years, the background against which Burke wrote has been much studied, throwing new light on his motives for commentating on France, and the reasons why his writings were both widely read and widely rejected. Published two hundred years after the outbreak of the French Revolution, this edition shows that the issues raised by the most influential commentaries on that Revolution have yet to be resolved.