La Vendée

La Vendée by Anthony Trollope is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: THE POITEVINS. The history of France in 1792 has been too fully written, and too generally read to leave the novelist any excuse for describing the state of Paris at the close of the summer of that year.
It is known to every one that the palace of Louis XVI was sacked on the 10th of August. That he This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.