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  • Audiobook

    100 Quotes by Denis Diderot

    Narrated by Brad Carty ...

    Unabridged

    34 min

    Featuring some of the most brilliant and notable sayings from a man living on the cusp of a revolutionising world, '100 Quotes by Denis Diderot' uncovers one of the most influential – yet almost forgotten – figures of the Age of Enlightenment.French writer, philosopher, and art critic Diderot is most famous for being the co-creator and editor of the 'Encyclopédie', which featured many contributors ... Read more

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  • Jacques the Fatalist

    by Denis Diderot ...
    Translated by Michael Henry ...
    Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was among the greatest writers of the Enlightenment, and in Jacques the Fatalist he brilliantly challenged the artificialities of conventional French fiction of his age. Riding through France with his master, the servant Jacques appears to act as though he is truly free in a world of dizzying variety and unpredictability. Characters emerge and disappear as the pair travel ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Audiobook

    3500 Final Quotes

    Unabridged

    14 hours 35 min

    Ready yourself for this carefully crafted collection of quotes from some of the greatest minds the world has ever seen!Featuring world-famous playwrights, philosophers, activists, Presidents and physicists, from Churchill and Shakespeare to Gandhi and Einstein, this is an entertaining and inspiring compilation covering everything from Ancient Rome to modern-day Britain.'3500 Final Quotes' is ideal ... Read more

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  • Rameau's Nephew / D'alembert's Dream

    by Denis Diderot ...
    Translated by Leonard Tancock ...
    One of the key figures of the French Enlightenment, Denis Diderot was a passionate critic of conventional morality, society and religion. Among his greatest and most well-known works, these two dialogues are dazzling examples of his radical scientific and philosophical beliefs. In Rameau's Nephew, the eccentric and foolish nephew of the great composer Jean-Philippe Rameau meets Diderot by chance, ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Rameau's Nephew (in a new translation by Ian C. Johnston) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Paris Café Dialogue on Genius, Hypocrisy, Music, and Enlightenment Morality

    Rameau's Nephew is one of Denis Diderot's most brilliant and unsettling dialogues, a philosophical satire staged as a conversation between the sober "Moi" and the dazzlingly amoral "Lui," nephew of the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. At once comic, theatrical, and intellectually corrosive, the work probes genius, hypocrisy, patronage, art, music, and moral relativism in the salons and cafés of ... Read more

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  • Denis Diderot 'Rameau's Nephew' - 'Le Neveu de Rameau'

    A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition

    Series Book 4 - Open Book Classics
    In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out from time to time is ... Read more

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  • The Nun

    by Denis Diderot ...
    Translated by Russell Goulbourne ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material. - ; ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Indiscreet Jewels

    by Denis Diderot ...
    Sultan Mangogul of Congo is bored of court life and suspects his mistress Mirzoza of infidelity. Happily for him, a genie presents him with a magical ring with unique properties. When the ring is rubbed and pointed at the genitals of any woman in the vicinity, the genitals ("discreet jewels") begin speaking of their past amorous experiences to the confusion and consternation of their owner. In the ... Read more

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  • THE NUN - Diderot

    by Denis Diderot ...
    Series series Erotic Classics
    Denis Diderot (1713 — 1784) was a French philosopher and writer. Notable during the Enlightenment, he is known for being the co-founder, editor-in-chief, and contributor to the Encyclopédie, along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. However, one of his most remarkable and provocative works was The Nun. In 1760, Denis Diderot and his friends wrote a series of letters to the Marquis de Croismare. The ... Read more

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  • Rameau's Nephew and First Satire

    Translated by Margaret Mauldon ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'unless you know everything, you really know nothing' Diderot's brilliant and witty dialogue begins with a chance encounter in a Paris café between two acquaintances. Their talk ranges broadly across art, music, education, and the contemporary scene, as the nephew of composer Rameau, amoral and bohemian, alternately shocks and amuses the moral, bourgeois figure of his interlocutor. Exuberant and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Encyclopedic Liberty

    Political Articles in the Dictionary of Diderot and D’Alembert

    Often described as the culmination of the French Enlightenment, the Encyclopédie was collected not only to serve as a comprehensive reference work, but to “change the way men think” about every aspect of the human and natural worlds. In his celebrated “Preliminary Discourse” to the compilation, d’Alembert traced an entire history of modern philosophy and science designed to chart the way toward a ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Memoirs of a Nun

    Introduction by P. N. Furbank

    by Denis Diderot ...
    Translated by Francis Birrell ...
    Memoirs of a Nun, which began as a joke and grew into a masterpiece, was one of the loudest salvos fired in the continuing battles between the clergy and the intelligentsia which defined so much of eighteenth-century French history. Diderot's story of a novice held in a convent against her will and forced to undergo curious spiritual and sexual trials displays all the brilliance, icy wit, and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD