This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

This volume also includes excerpts from his letters and an informative Introduction surveying Burke's life, ideas, and his reception and influence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

"Originally published: Chicago : Regnery Gateway, 1963. Includes bibliographical references (p. [699]-702). This is the most comprehensive anthology of works and speeches by the statesman and political philosopher Edmund Burke (1729-1797).

The Routledge Classics edition presents the authoritative text of the first critical edition of Burke’s essay ever published, including a substantial critical and historical commentary. Edmund Burke (1729–1797).

Reissued here is one of the most influential works of Western political thought and rhetoric, first published in 1790.

Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, this work offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead.