Je suis curieuse...

[simply-kelp.livejournal.com]

I have been stalking this community for a while, but am only now joining because I have a question. (It’s so exciting to see people interested in the French Revolution! Most of my family/friends/colleagues/&etc. just ignore me when I mention anything about it...)

Where do you buy your books on the French Revolution. Some, I’m sure you happen to find by chance, but where do you get the ones that you set out to buy. I have been browsing Amazon lately (because my books are quite lonely), and so many of them are very expensive! (For I am, regrettably, a poor college student...) How much do you generally pay for a book on the French Revolution? It depends on the content, I suppose, but like for an ‘Oeuvres Completes de...’, or those demmed elusive (gad, a Pimpernel reference...) biographies on Saint-Just, Hérault, &etc.

Salut et fraternité,
Kelp

Comments

[kurotoshi.livejournal.com]

PSSHH, if you think books on Saint-Just are expensive - wait 'ill you see the prices on the ones about Marat! But you mention that you're a college student - have you tried it's library? I got most if not all my books at my University because they had them or could have them brought in from another university or college - it's worth a shot and shouldn't cost you a penny!

[simply-kelp.livejournal.com]

For some reason, I forgot that even if my school's library sucks (it's community college, so...), it's still connected to other-- better-- libraries.

(I don't think I've ever even *heard* of a Marat biography, I can't imagine how much it would *cost*!)

[kurotoshi.livejournal.com]

Haha, it's okay! We all have mindslips!

(they're rare, and then you have to filter out the garbage!)

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

If the above suggestion doesn't work, I suggest bookfinder.com. You can find just about everything there.

[simply-kelp.livejournal.com]

O, I shall look there directly! Thanks.

[citoyenneclark.livejournal.com]

Try Tricolor books, run by Susanna Betzel, who writes books under the pen name Susanna Allyen. The books there tend to be very very cheap, and there is currently a massive sale.

[simply-kelp.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'll go check it out!

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Plain old Amazon can be good - if there's a title you're after, keep checking their 'used and new' listings regularly - I saw a cheap Saint-Just biog come and go in a couple of days - but you can get some real bargains: today I got in the post a William Godwin book that's normally about £25 for 48 cents plus 3 dollars postage from the US to GB - you wonder why they even bother sticking something in an envelope for that price!

It's also worth noting that some second-hand (used) book sellers list the same book on both booksearch websites/ebay and Amazon, but the postage is often cheaper on Amazon, so check before you buy!

[wolfshadow713.livejournal.com]

I think it depends on what your looking for.

Amazon has pretty good deals on used books, if your looking for relatively recent/known books (twelve who ruled, etc). Out-of-print books and "oeuvres completes de..." will probably be expensive and/or expensive, but if they're in public domain you may be able to find them--or at least parts of them--on the internet.

If you're looking for primary source documents, there's a fair amount on the web. If you read French, I'd recommend http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/ihm/index_nea1789-1794.htm.

[simply-kelp.livejournal.com]

O, that site looks very neat; I haven’t looked too closely at it yet, but it looks very promising! Thanks.