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Persian Letters (Penguin Classics)
Persian Letters - Penguin Classics
Author: Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu
Based on the 1761 edition, this translation strives for fidelity and retains Montesquieu's paragraphing. George R. Healy's Introduction discusses The Persian Letters as a kind of overture to the Enlightenment, a work of remarkable diversity designed more to explore a problem of great urgency for eighteenth century thought than to resolve it: th...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780140442816
ISBN-10: 0140442812
Publication Date: 4/30/1973
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Letters from the perspective of a man from Persia on the topic of Politics in Paris. A clever way for Montesquieu to critique his own culture.


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