The Art of the Persian Letters

The Art of the Persian Letters PDF Author: Randolph Runyon
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874139228
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Book Description
"Readers of Montesquieu will through this study discover a new Persian Letters, as the exquisite subtlety of its construction is laid bare for the first time. It should find a new appreciation as a work of art, and not merely as a precursor to the author's Of the Spirit of the Laws. The Letters will henceforth be read in the light of similarly composite texts, from Montaigne's Essays to Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal."--Jacket.