The Gods Will Have Blood (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140184570 (0140184570)
Publish date: December 1st 1990
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Politics,
France,
French Literature,
Nobel Prize,
European History,
French Revolution
Introduction--The Gods Will Have BloodNotes
3.5 - 4 starsWhat happens when we let an idea, an ideal of what humanity ought to be, perhaps even a good one of what it could be, consume us? What happens when the idea becomes more important than the people it is meant to represent? What happens when this idea becomes a god to be worshipped blindl...
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