Product Description: Desmond is a political novel about the French Revolution. It is Charlotte Smith’s only epistolary work, and it is her most politically radical piece. Written in response to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Smith’s Desmond fuses political discussion with romance, social satire and a suspenseful plot revolving around a liberal hero desperately in love with a woman who is married to a drunken anti-revolutionary...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Desmond" is Charlotte Smith's only epistolary work and is her most politically outspoken text, incorporating the events of the French Revolution into its plot. The Revolution is discussed and a parallel is drawn between political and domestic tyranny. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)