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Peter Gay is Director of the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He wrote Schnitzler’s Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815–1914.
Witness to Fascism
Journal, 1935–1944
by Mihail Sebastian,translated from the Romanian by Patrick Camiller, with an introduction by Radu Ioanid
October 4, 2001 issue
The Old New Man
The Political Philosophy of Rousseau
by Roger D. Masters
Rousseau and the Spirit of Revolt
by William H. Blanchard
La nouvelle Héloïse: Julie or the New Heloise
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated and abridged by Judith H. McDowell
The Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated and introduced by Maurice Cranston
December 5, 1968 issue
The Present in the Past
A History of French Civilization: From the Year 1000 to the Present
by Georges Duby and Robert Mandrou, translated by James Blakely Atkinson
January 28, 1965 issue
Bourgeois manifesto
What Is The Third Estate?
by Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, translated by M. Blondel, edited by S.E. Finer, with an Introduction by Peter Campbell
August 20, 1964 issue
Voltaire
Select Letters of Voltaire
translated and edited by Theodore Besterman
April 16, 1964 issue
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