Author : Voltaire
Release : 1999
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 080/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Letters Concerning the English Nation by : Voltaire

Download or read book Letters Concerning the English Nation written by Voltaire. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. His 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 includes intriguing accounts of Voltaire by contemporary English observers.