It‘s a dense read, and it really helps to have some background on both the basic outline of the French Revolution and on Burke‘s thought, but Burke‘s open letter is lively, piercingly insightful, prescient, timeless, and eminently quotable. It‘s place in the canon of conservative thought is well deserved, and it is well worth the read even if you seen Burke‘s name around a lot, because there is too much wisdom here to pithily summarize.