Persian Letters

Name: Persian Letters
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ISBN: 9780192806352

ISBN-10: 0192806351

ISBN-13: 9780192806352

Edition: 2008

Authors: Montesquieu, Margaret Mauldon, Andrew Kahn, Montesquieu

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Persian Letters is a classic of European literature by Baron de Montesquieu, the brilliant thinker who had a huge influence on the Enlightenment. Through the astute observations of his two fictional Persian travelers in Europe--Usbek and Rica--Montesquieu asks fundamental questions about human nature, the manners and flirtations of polite society, the structures of power, and the hypocrisy of religion-all in a witty, inventive satire that combines travel literature and the epistolary genre. Indeed, this pioneering epistolary novel appeared almost twenty years before Richardson's Pamela. This is the first English translation based on the new, definitive edition of the original French text,…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.572



Select Bibliography


Note on the Chronology of the Persian Letters


A Chronology of Montesquieu


List of Characters


Persian Letters


Preface


Letters


Supplementary Letters


Some Reflections on the Persian Letters



Extracts from Montesquieu's Sources


Explanatory Notes


Concordance of Letter Numbers