Tea at Trianon: Now on Kindle

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Now on Kindle

The Night's Dark Shade has been made into an e-book and is available from Amazon's Kindle. People kept asking me if there was going to be a digital edition; Amazon made it very easy to convert the printed book into an e-book. Apparently a whole library can be kept on one e-reader and taken everywhere. It is a great idea if you are researching a project and want to travel without dragging along twenty or thirty bound books. (I could really have used one when I was in grad school.) Kindle e-readers are now available from our Trianon bookstore. For those of us who like to hold a book, The Night's Dark Shade will continue to be published in the traditional format as well. Share

2 comments:

Julygirl said...: The young man who started Amaszon.com said people tried to discourage him from the e-book format, but he said Kindle is his most successful idea to date. Good Luck!; February 9, 2010 at 11:27:00 AM EST
elena maria vidal said...: Thank you so much!; February 9, 2010 at 8:42:00 PM EST