Letters concerning the English Nation

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Inspired by Voltaire`s stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver`s Travels and The Beggar`s Opera, Voltaire`s controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and literature have placed the Letters among the great Augustan satires.Voltaire wrote most of the book in English, in which he was fluent and witty, and it fast became a bestseller in Britain. He re-wrote it in French as the Lettres philosophiques, and

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