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Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. His controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophhy, 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 current editions in English translate his French. This edition restores for the modern reader Voltaire's own English text, allowing us to appreciate him as a stylist at first hand. It is the only critical edition of the original text and, as well as providing an introduction and notes, it includes intriguing accounts of Voltaire by contemporary English observers.

Letters Concerning the English Nation	p. i
Acknowledgements	p. vi
Introduction Voltaire: an Augustan Author	p. vii
Note on the Text	p. xxviii
Select Bibliography	p. xxxiii
A Chronology of Voltaire	p. xxxvii
The Preface	p. 5
on the Quakers	p. 9
on the Quakers	p. 14
on the Quakers	p. 17
on the Quakers	p. 21
on the Church of England	p. 26
on the Presbyterians	p. 29
on the Socinians, or Arians, or Antitrinitarians	p. 31
on the Parliament	p. 33
on the Government	p. 37
on Trade	p. 42
on Inoculation	p. 44
on the Lord Bacon	p. 49
on Mr. Locke	p. 54
on Des Cartes and Sir Isaac Newton	p. 61
on Attraction	p. 67
on Sir Isaac Newton's Opticks	p. 76
on Infinites in Geometry, and Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology	p. 80
on Tragedy	p. 87
on Comedy	p. 93
on Such of the Nobility as Cultivate the Belles Lettres	p. 98
on the Earl of Rochester and Mr. Waller	p. 101
on Mr. Pope, and Some Other Famous Poets	p. 107
on the Regard That Ought to Be Shown to Men of Letters	p. 112
on the Royal Society and Other Academies	p. 116
Letter Xxv, 'On Paschal's Thoughts Concerning Religion, &c.'	p. 122
Extracts from Voltaire's an Essay Upon the Civil Wars of France and Also Upon the Epick Poetry of the European Nations from Homer Down to Milton	p. 151
Extract from Oliver Goldsmith's Memoirs of M. De Voltaire	p. 162
Original Anecdote of Voltaire and a Quaker	p. 172
Explanatory Notes	p. 175
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Letters Concerning the English Nation

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