The Nun
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- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
26 May 2005
Summary
Considered too subversive during Diderot’s lifetime, The Nun first appeared in print in 1796 following the Revolution.
In 1758, Diderot’s friend the Marquis de Croismare became interested in the cause célèbre of a nun who was appealing to be allowed to leave a Paris convent. Less than a year later, in an affectionate attempt to trick his friend, Diderot created this masterpiece—a fictitious set of desperate and pleading letters to the Marquis from a teenage girl forced into t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140443004 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140443002 |
| Author: | Denis Diderot, Leonard Tancock |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 26 May 2005 |
| Weight: | 145g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot was born at Langres in eastern France in 1713. After graduating in Paris in 1732, he was nominally a law student for ten years, but was actually leading a precarious bohemian but studious existence. In the early 1740s he met three contemporaries who were of great significance to him and to the age: d’Alembert, Condillac and Rousseau, who assisted Diderot in the compilation of the Encyclopédie, which he worked on until its completion in 1773. Interested in the mind-body dichotomy, his work was a bold mixture of science and philosophy. He died in 1784.
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