1913 Essais de critique et d’histoire

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Leather Binding

Bound in a green quarter morocco binding with marbled paper boards. 

Twelfth edition.

Taine’s Essais de critique et d’histoire gathers his seminal essays on French literature, history, and cultural analysis with reflections on writers such as Racine, La Fontaine, and contemporary historians.

Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893) was a major French critic, historian, and philosopher, best known for his deterministic view of culture, summed up in the triad of race, milieu, moment. He influenced both naturalist writers like Zola and historians of the later 19th century.