P.N. Furbank
P. N. Furbank is the author of Diderot and, with W.R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe. (December 2007)
From the Review
December 6, 2007: Who Are 'The French'?
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War by Graham Robb
April 26, 2007: A Capacity for Impudence
Beaumarchais in Seville: An Intermezzo by Hugh Thomas
December 21, 2006: The Love of a Pessimist
Leonard Woolf: A Biography by Victoria Glendinning
November 16, 2006: Lost in Translation (letter)
June 8, 2006: The Charms of Selfishness
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius by Leo Damrosch
December 15, 2005: Cultivating Voltaire's Garden
Voltaire in Exile: The Last Years, 1753–78 by Ian Davidson
Candide, or, Optimism by Voltaire,translated by Peter Constantine, with an introduction by Diane Johnson
Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire,translated by Burton Raffel
September 22, 2005: 'The Scientific Takeover' (letter)
May 26, 2005: The Scientific Takeover
Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years by Charles Coulston Gillispie
April 29, 2004: Body and Soul
Flesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter, with a foreword by Simon Schama
October 9, 2003: What Adèle Knew
Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne edited and with an introduction by Anka Muhlstein, and an afterword by Olivier Bernier
June 12, 2003: 'Their Noon, Their Midnight...'
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, 1715–99 by Colin Jones
December 19, 2002: Men in the Moon
The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World by Jenny Uglow
November 15, 2001: The Art of Malice
Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, with Jean-François Fitou, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer
February 8, 2001: A Royal Mystery
The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette by Chantal Thomas, translated from the French by Julie Rose
Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France by Evelyne Lever, translated from the French by Catherine Temerson
November 30, 2000: Epic-Making
Barbarism and Religion Volume 1: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764Volume 2: Narratives of Civil Government by J.G.A. Pocock
May 25, 2000: Dreams of the Body
Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David After the Terror by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
February 24, 2000: Brave New World
France in the Enlightenment by Daniel Roche, Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer
April 8, 1999: Tocqueville's Lament
The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville, edited by François Furet, by Françoise Mélonio, translated by Alan S Kahan
Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution by Patrice Higonnet
December 3, 1998: The Hack of Genius
Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures by Richard West
March 5, 1998: Portraits of a Lady
Women's Words: Essay on French Singularity by Mona Ozouf, translated by Jane Marie Todd
January 15, 1998: A Finished Woman
The Portrait of Zélide by Geoffrey Scott, Introduction by Shirley Hazzard, afterword by Richard Dunn
December 18, 1997: The Pleasures of Reading Hogarth
Hogarth: A Life and a World by Jenny Uglow
The Analysis of Beauty by William Hogarth, edited with an introduction and notes by Ronald Paulson
Hogarth and His Times: Serious Comedy by David Bindman
July 11, 1996: A Simple Facilitator
Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions by Lloyd Kramer
May 9, 1996: Love à la Mode
The Love Affair as a Work of Art by Dan Hofstadter
April 18, 1996: Allowing for Mme De Stael (letter)
December 21, 1995: Call Me Madame
Delphine by Germaine de Staël, translated and with an introduction by Avriel H. Goldberger
October 19, 1995: The Time of Her Life
That Mighty Sculptor, Time by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Walter Kaiser
How Many Years by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Maria Louise Ascher
A Blue Tale and Other Stories by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Alberto Manguel
Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life by Josyane Savigneau, translated by Joan E. Howard
March 23, 1995: Little Women
Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740–1832 by Stella Tillyard
November 3, 1994: All About Eve
Madame du Deffand and Her World by Benedetta Craveri, translated by Teresa Waugh
September 22, 1994: Mysteries of Mallarmé
A Throw of the Dice: The Life of Stéphane Mallarmé by Gordon Millan
July 14, 1994: His Mystic Way
Amorous Initiation: A Novel of Sacred and Profane Love, An Excerpt from the Memoirs of the Chevalier Waldemar de L—— by O.V. de L. Milosz, translated by Belle N. Burke
January 13, 1994: Marshmallowing
On Love by Alain de Botton
November 18, 1993: Leave it to Chance
Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance: The Novel and the Culture of Gambling in Eighteenth-Century France by Thomas M. Kavanagh
October 22, 1992: Looking for Napoleon
The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys, translated by Patricia Clancy. the author
The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P. by Brian O'Doherty
The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena by Julia Blackburn
Napoleon: An Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy produced and edited by Proctor Patterson Jones
June 25, 1992: A Double Life
Chamfort by Claude Arnaud, translated by Deke Dusinberre, foreword by Joseph Epstein
From New York Review Books
| We Think the World of You This powerful short novel, with its extraordinary mixture of acute social realism and dark fantasy, was described by J. R. Ackerley himself as "a fairy tale for adults." |