Reflections on the Revolution in France and Other Writings

Philosopher, statesman and founder of conservatism, Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundred years. He was one of the eighteenth century's golden generation, which included his friends Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson and Edward Gibbon; a dazzling orator and a visionary theorist who spent his long political career fighting the abuse of power against the backdrop of the the revolt of the American colonies, the expansion of the British empire, the collapse of Ireland and the French revolution. In this single volume Burke's greatest work, Reflections on the Revolution in France, is accompanied by a comprehensive selection if his other writings, including pamphlets, speeches, public letters, private correspondence and, for the first time, two important and previously unpublished early essays. Burke should be a core part of every civilised library, and this is an essential collection for students, for scholars, and for the general reader.