Lettres Persanes by Montesquieu

Lettres Persanes

Montesquieu

490 pages first pub 1721 (editions)

fiction classics philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced
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Two Persians arrive in Paris in 1711 to observe how the French live. Under the covers of this simple story, Usbek and Rica produce a satirical portrait of a society at the dying end of a reign and during the Regency, casting a simultaneously naive...

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