audiobook I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like: Mostly True Tall Tales by Todd Snider in Arts-Photography

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This is your rhetoric translated. These wretches; these executioners; the guillotine are your speeches come to life. You have built your doctrines out of human heads... Why should an event that transforms the whole of humanity not advance through blood? 1794: the French Revolution reaches its climax. After a series of bloody purges the life-loving; volatile Danton is tormented by his part in the killing. His political rival; the driven; ascetic Robespierre; decides Dantons fate. A titanic struggle begins. Once friends who wanted to change the world; now one stands for compromise the other for ideological purity as the guillotine awaits. A revolutionary himself; George Buuml;chner was 21 when he wrote the play in 1835; while hiding from the police. With its hair-raising on-rush of scenes and vivid dramatisation of complex; visionary characters; Dantons Death has a claim to be the greatest political tragedy ever written. In his newly-revised translation; Howard Brenton captures Buuml;chners exhilarating energy as Danton struggles to avoid his inexorable fall.