F. P. Lock has been Professor of English at Queen's University at Kingston, Canada, since 1987, having previously taught at the University of Queensland, Australia. A specialist in eighteenth-century studies, his previous books include The Politics of 'Gulliver's Travels' (1980), Swift's Tory Politics (1983), and Burke's 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1985). While researching his biography of Burke (the first volume of which appeared in 1999), he discovered about sixty new Burke letters, which have been published in the English Historical Review (1997-2003).

With this fine volume, Professor Lock brings to a conclusion his distinguished biography of one of the most important political thinkers of eighteenth-century Europe...impressive...an outstanding study, which will for the foreseeable future remain the standard authority on Burke's career. It has the merits of lucidity, accessibility and depth of learning, and it leaves historians very much in its author's debt.

• 1. Picking up the Pieces, 1784-1785 ; 2. A Pledge Redeemed, 1785-1786 ; 3. In the Name of the Commons, 1786-1787 ; 4. A Boundless Object, 1787-1788 ; 5. Madness and Discord, 1788-1789 ; 6. The Making of the Reflections, 1789-1790 ; 7. Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790 ; 8. Triumph and Tribulation, 1790-1791 ; 9. A Uniform Whig, 1791-1792 ; 10. Chained to an Oar, 1792-1794 ; 11. A Withered Stump, 1794-1795 ; 12. An Old Oak, 1795-1796 ; 13. Sublime and Minute, 1796-1797 ; Index

F. P. Lock has been Professor of English at Queen's University at Kingston, Canada, since 1987, having previously taught at the University of Queensland, Australia. A specialist in eighteenth-century studies, his previous books include The Politics of 'Gulliver's Travels' (1980), Swift's Tory Politics (1983), and Burke's 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1985). While researching his biography of Burke (the first volume of which appeared in 1999), he discovered about sixty new Burke letters, which have been published in the English Historical Review (1997-2003).

With this fine volume, Professor Lock brings to a conclusion his distinguished biography of one of the most important political thinkers of eighteenth-century Europe...impressive...an outstanding study, which will for the foreseeable future remain the standard authority on Burke's career. It has the merits of lucidity, accessibility and depth of learning, and it leaves historians very much in its author's debt.

• 1. Picking up the Pieces, 1784-1785 ; 2. A Pledge Redeemed, 1785-1786 ; 3. In the Name of the Commons, 1786-1787 ; 4. A Boundless Object, 1787-1788 ; 5. Madness and Discord, 1788-1789 ; 6. The Making of the Reflections, 1789-1790 ; 7. Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790 ; 8. Triumph and Tribulation, 1790-1791 ; 9. A Uniform Whig, 1791-1792 ; 10. Chained to an Oar, 1792-1794 ; 11. A Withered Stump, 1794-1795 ; 12. An Old Oak, 1795-1796 ; 13. Sublime and Minute, 1796-1797 ; Index