Persian Letters : With Related Texts, Paperback by Montesquieu, Charles de Se...-image

Persian Letters : With Related Texts, Paperback by Montesquieu, Charles de Se...

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Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated width: 5.5 in Publication Year: 2014 Number of Pages: 344 Pages Item Width: 5.5 in ISBN: 9781624661808 Item Weight: 14.5 Oz Genre: Philosophy, Fiction Author: Montesquieu Topic: General, History & Surveys / Renaissance Item Length: 8.5 in Language: English Book Series: Hackett Classics Ser. Format: Trade Paperback Book Title: Persian Letters : with Related Texts

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Persian Letters : With Related Texts, Paperback by Montesquieu, Charles de Se.... Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (). Persian Letters : With Related Texts, Paperback by Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de; Mackenzie, Raymond N. (TRN), ISBN 1624661807, ISBN-13 9781624661808, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Montesquieu (1) Lettres persanes (1721) was one of the most daring, even scandalous, work of its day, says MacKenzie, both reflecting and give new impetus to many of the themes, ideas, and attitudes that came to characterize the Enlightenment. For his translation, he mainly uses the definite French critical edition edited by Edgar Mass that comprises volume one of a new 2004 complete works of Montesquieu, but also draws on three earlier editions he finds excellent. To show the legacy of Persian Letters, he appends George Lyttelton's Letters from a Persian in England to his Friend at Ispahan (1735), Voltaire's Zadig, or Destiny: An Oriental Tale (1747), Oliver Goldsmith's The Citizen of the World (1762), and Maria Edgeworth's Murad the Unlucky (1804). Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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