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1 online resource (xliii, 354 pages) |
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Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Contents |
Principal Abbreviations; Introduction; Note on the Text and Translation; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of François de La Rochefoucauld; Réflexions ou Sentences et Maximes morales; Moral Reflections or Sententiae and Maxims: fifth edition, 1678 (V); The 1678 Table des matières / Index; Maxims Finally Withdrawn by La Rochefoucauld; Maxims Never Published by La Rochefoucauld; Réflexions diverses; Miscellaneous Reflections; Addenda to the Réflexions diverses; Portrait de M.R.D. fait par lui-même; Portrait of Monsieur R----d, by Himself; Appendix: Maxims of Doubtful Authenticity |
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Explanatory NotesTable of Alternative Maxim Numbers; Index of Topics |
| Summary |
This is the fullest collection of La Rochefoucauld's writings ever published in English, and includes the first complete translation of the Miscellaneous Reflections. A table of alternative maxim numbers and an index of topics help the reader to locate any maxim quickly. - ;'Our virtues are, most often, only vices in disguise.'. Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behaviour have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust, de Gaulle, Nietzsche, and Conan Doyle. The author gave himself the |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xl-xli) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
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Print version record |
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Maxims.
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Maxims, French -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Maxims
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Maxims, French
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blackmore, E. H.
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Blackmore, A. M.
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Giguère, Francine.
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| ISBN |
9780191517495 |
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0191517496 |
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