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Persian letters / Montesquieu ; translated by Margaret Mauldon ; with an introduction and notes by Andrew Kahn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755, author.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford world's classics
- Standardized Title:
- Lettres persanes. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iranians--France--Fiction.
- Iranians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Two Persian travelers arrive in Paris and report on the European society of the Enlightenment in their letters home. With biting satire they compare East and West, while unsettling news from the harem provides a suspenseful plot of jealousy and passion. This is the first English translation based on the original text. - ;'Oh! Monsieur is Persian? That's most extraordinary! How can someone be Persian?'. Two Persian travelers, Usbek and Rica, arrive in Paris just before the death of Louis XIV and in time to witness the hedonism and financial crash of the Regency. In their letters home they rep
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; Note on the Chronology of the Persian Letters; A Chronology of Montesquieu; List of Characters; PERSIAN LETTERS; Appendix: Extracts from Montesquieu's Sources; Explanatory Notes; Concordance of Letter Numbers
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxxiv]-xxxvii).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-160488-7
- 1-281-51526-4
- 9786611515263
- 0-19-153963-5
- OCLC:
- 437094015
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