Persian letters / Montesquieu ; translated by Margaret Mauldon ; with an introduction and notes by Andrew Kahn.
2008
PQ2011.L5 E57 2008 (Mapit)
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Persian letters / Montesquieu ; translated by Margaret Mauldon ; with an introduction and notes by Andrew Kahn.
Uniform Title
Lettres persanes. English
ISBN
9780192806352 (pbk.)
0192806351 (pbk.)
0192806351 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the French.
Description
xlii, 270 p. ; 20 cm.
Call Number
PQ2011.L5 E57 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
843/.5
Summary
In 1711 Usbek leaves his seraglio in Isfahan to undertake the long journey to France, accompanied by his young friend Rica. He leaves behind five wives (Zachi, Zéphis, Fatmé, Zélis, and Roxane) in the care of a number of black eunuchs, one of whom is the head or first eunuch. During the trip and their long stay in Paris (1712-1720), they comment, in letters exchanged with friends and mullahs, on numerous aspects of Western, Christian society, particularly French politics and mores, ending with a biting satire of the System of John Law. Over time, various disorders surface back in the seraglio, and beginning in 1717 (Letter 139 [147]), the situation there rapidly unravels. -- Wikipedia.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Mauldon, Margaret.
Kahn, Andrew.
Kahn, Andrew.
Series
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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