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Letters concerning the English Nation - Oxford World's Classics
Voltaire
Letters concerning the English Nation - Oxford World's Classics
Voltaire
Inspired by Voltaire's stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's 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 includesintriguing accounts of Voltaire by contemporary English observers.
240 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | July 30, 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780199555321 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Dimensions | 129 × 196 × 12 mm · 172 g |
Editor | Cronk, Nicholas (Fellow and Tutor in French; Faculty Lecturer, Fellow and Tutor in French; Faculty Lecturer, St Edmund Hall, Oxford) |
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