Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Diderot’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* Many important treatises, with individual contents tables
* Features translations appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Features three biographies – discover Diderot’s intriguing life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Novels
The Indiscreet Toys (1748)
Memoirs of a Nun (1796)
The Philosophical Works
Philosophical Thoughts (1746)
Letter on the Blind (1749)
Letter on the Deaf and Dumb (1751)
On Composition (1755)
My Strange Thoughts on Drawing (1755)
Letter to My Brother (1760)
Freedom of Thought (1765)
Maimonides (1765)
Rameau’s Nephew (1774)
Conversation between D’Alembert and Diderot (1769)
Regrets for my Old Dressing Gown (1769)
Thoughts on Religion (1770)
A Father Talks with his Children (1771)
Paradox of the Actor (1830)
The Biographies
Diderot and the Encyclopædists (1886) by John Morley
Diderot: The Talker (1906) by Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Denis Diderot (1911) by John Morley
