Book · 1721 · Fiction

Persian Letters

Name: Persian Letters
Author: Montesquieu

Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 341 pages

★ 5.9 editorial score

Two Persian travelers in Paris write home about a king who conjures money from paper and a pope who makes bread into flesh. In Isfahan, the harem one of them left is collapsing.

Genre

Epistolary novel Philosophical fiction Social criticism

Medium

Novel

Subject

Politics Society Cultural differences Orientalism

Setting

Paris

Time

1721Depicts Age of EnlightenmentDepicts 18th century

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