History

[bertine]

Sunday afternoon I caught a show about the French Revolution while I was hanging out at my parents house. Ever since I have been reading up on it. I think I need to go to the library and get a couple books on it.

I love history.

Comments

[beg-jon13.livejournal.com]

Have you read War and Peace?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Yes. I was obsessed with the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars as a teenager. This time I want to read more factual stuff.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Tale of Two Cities?

[beg-jon13.livejournal.com]

I'm reading it again right now (like taking a break to type this). It's so damn good. I'm glad I finally have a chance to read an unabridged edition.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Yes.
I even read the Scarlet Pimpernel.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Is it a better translation? The one I read sometimes was stiled in a way that made you remember that it was written in Russian, not English.

[beg-jon13.livejournal.com]

It's the Rosemary Edmonds translation published by Penguin.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Couple of suggestions: Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France by Lucy Moore, and The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert. I don't think either book enabled me to get my head entirely around the revolution--I think it's too big and complex a topic for one book to do that--but they were a start.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

That's the one I read too, and I thought it was great.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Those are just what I was looking for.

Oh, I am excited abotu the second one. :)

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Wait, that is the one I read. It was Anna Karenina that I didn't like the translation (I read them one after another for a class in high school so they get mixed up in my head).

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yay! Glad to be of assistance.

[theophania-79.livejournal.com]

I love history too. The Roman-era fascinates me most, hence my envy of your forthcoming trip to Turkey :p

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I am so excited about Turkey. I love the Roman period too but my real love is the crusades. I can't wait to see stuff about that there!!!

[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

I can set you up with a calendar that may or may not have information about the French revolution! (I honestly don't remember) I just got them!

[lisianthia.livejournal.com]

When are you going again? Spring?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Next fall. I have to wait for Eric to get home.

I am actually thinking late October/early November because my vacation refreshes on Oct 31st.

[lonely-doll.livejournal.com]

I got very interested in the French Revolution when I went to Paris - for some reason, I'm interested in revolutions, in general, actually.