Select Works of Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France

Originally published by Oxford University Press in the 1890s, the famed three-volume Payne edition of Select Works is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Faithfully reproduced in each volume are E. J. Payne’s notes and introductory essays. Francis Canavan, one of the great Burke scholars of the twentieth century, has added forewords. Volume 2 consists of Burke’s most renowned work, Reflections on the Revolution in France . In it, he excoriates French revolut