Letters Concerning the English Nation (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Voltaire, Voltaire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019955532X ISBN 13: 9780199555321

Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. His controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and literature have placed the Letters among the great Augustan satires. Voltaire wrote most of the book in English, in which he was fluent and witty, and it fast became a bestseller in Britain. He re-wrote it in French as the Lettres Philosophiques, and current editions in English translate his French. This edition restores for the modern reader Voltaire's own English text, allowing us to appreciate him as a stylist at first hand. It is the only critical edition of the original text and, as well as providing an introduction and notes, it includes intriguing accounts of Voltaire by contemporary English observers.

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Director of the Voltaire Foundation, Nicholas Cronk is Fellow and Tutor in French at St Edmund's Hall and Faculty Lecturer, Oxford.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 019955532X
• ISBN 13: 9780199555321
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 193
• Herausgeber: Cronk Nicholas
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