cover image The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France

The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France

Robert Darnton. W. W. Norton & Company, $17.95 (464pp) ISBN 978-0-393-31442-7

In this NBCC finalist, cultural historian Darnton examines subversive French works of the 1780s, arguing that these underground books were as influential as more classic Enlightenment fare. (Apr.)