The Persian letters
(2011)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Barnes & Noble, 2011
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781411459359 MWT15347494, 1411459350 15347494
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In this 1721 satire, two Persian noblemen, Usbek and Rica, travel to France, commenting on their adventures in letters to family and mullahs back home. This early model for the epistolary novel sends up Parisian culture and society, including cafés, salons, the theater, fashion, religion, royalty, and even the emerging mass media of prints and periodicals
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