Robert Darnton explores the scandalous literature of libel and the colorful lives of libelers in eighteenth-century France.... Læs mere
Shortlisted for the 2024 American Library in Paris Book AwardA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA groundbreaking account of the coming of the French Revolution from a historian of worldwide acclaim.
A classic work of European history
The Writer’s Lot explores the working lives of eighteenth-century French authors—celebrities and unknowns—at a time when their... Læs mere