iv, 358 pp. Green imitation leather, gilt titles and decorations, color illustration mounted on front board, reproduction of one engraving precedes text (both illustrations unattributed). This novel traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dicken's based his historical detail on Carlyle's The French Revolution, and his own observations and investigations during his numerous visits to Paris.
