| - Book Title: The Age of Reason
- Author: Harold Nicolson
- ISBN: MWOO55595
- Publisher: Constable
- Year Published: 1961
- Our Normal Price: £18.70 GBP ($0.00 USD)
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- Description: Constable & Co, London, 1961 reprint of the 1960 first edition : blue hardcover with silver lettering to spine: approximately 6 x 9.5 inches tall: 424 pages including index: 16 black and white illustrations. Synopsis: A scholarly and detailed examination of the reasoning and historical backgrounds of notable rationalists and intellectuals of the 18th-century . Contents: Chapter 1: Courtly Standards: Saint- Simon 1675 -1755. Chapter 2: Rationalism: Pierre Bayle, 1647 -1706. Chapter 3: Setting Sun: Louis XIV, 1700 -1715. Chapter 4: The Emergence of Muscovy: Peter the Great, 1672 -1725. Chapter 5: Scepticism: Voltaire, 1694 -1778. Chapter 6: Philosopher King: Frederick The Great, 1712 1786. Chapter 7: Semiramis: Catherine The Great, 1729 -1796. Chapter 8: Complacency: Joseph Addison, 1672 -1719. Chapter 9: Savage Pessimism: Jonathan Swift 1667 -1745. Chapter 10:Thirteen Colonies: 1492 -1783. Chapter 11: The Simple Man: Franklin, 1706 -1790. Chapter 12: The Salons: 1660 -1789. Chapter 13: Dilettante, Horace Walpole, 1717-1797. Chapter 14: Free Thought: The Encyclopedie, 1751 -1772. Chapter 15: Disintegration: Louis XV, 1715 -1774. Chapter 16: Gullibility: Cagliostro, 1743 -1795. Chapter 17: Solid Sense: Samuel Johnson, 1709 -1784. Chapter 18:Sturm Und Drang: 1770 -1778. Chapter 19: Rights of Man: Tom Paine, 1737 -1809. Chapter 20: Religious Revival: John Westley, 1703 -1791. Chapter 21: Sensibility: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 -1778. Appendix: list of books used and quoted. Index of proper names. Condition: no dust jacket: very clean and good overall.
- Condition: See Above
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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