This Is Not a Story and Other Stories

Diderot has been admired as a novelist, philosopher, and encyclopedist, but he is less well known as a writer of short fiction. This volume presents his five remarkable philosophical tales including "This Is Not a Story," "On the Inconsistency of Public Opinion Regarding Our Private Action," and "Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage," as well as "The Two Friends From Bourbonne" and "Conversation of a Father with His Children: or the Danger of Setting Oneself Above the Law," both of which are here translated into English for the first time.

• Author
• Denis Diderot, P.N. Furbank

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 176

• Publisher
• Oxford University Press, USA

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780192829580

• Genres
• fiction, philosophy, classics, france

• Release date
• 1993