Letters on England


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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.

Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 07/31/1980
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.08w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9780140443868
ISBN10: 014044386X
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
- Literary Collections | Letters
- Literary Criticism | European | French

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).