Letters on England, Paperback/Voltaire

Letters on England, Paperback/Voltaire

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Editura
An publicare
1980
Nr. Pagini
160
ISBN
9780140443868

Descriere

Description Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture. Perceiving them as a veiled attack against the ancien regime, however, the French government ordered the letters burned and Voltaire persecuted. About the Author Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer, satirist, the embodiment of the 18th-century Enlightenment. Among his best-known works is the satirical short story CANDIDE (1759).

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