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Subject(s)

• France—History—18th century—Fiction [Browse]
• Iranians—France—Fiction [Browse]
• Travelers—Fiction [Browse]
• Letters—Fiction [Browse]

Related name

• Mauldon, Margaret [Browse]
• Kahn, Andrew [Browse]

Series

• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) [More in this series]
• Oxford world's classics

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxiv]-xxxvii).

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Language note

Translated from the French.

Contents

• Select Bibliography
• Note on the Chronology of the Persian Letters
• A Chronology of Montesquieu
• List of Characters
• Persian Letters
• Letters
• Supplementary Letters
• Some Reflections on the Persian Letters
• Appendix Extracts. From Montesquieu's Sources
• Explanatory Notes
• Concordance of Letter Numbers.

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ISBN

• 9780192806352
• 0192806351

LCCN

^^2007039894

OCLC

173480653

RCP

H - S

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