L'homme sauvage
by Johann Gottlob Benjamin Pfeil
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L'homme sauvage
1767, chez la Veuve Duchesne, libraire, rue St. Jacques, au-dessous de la Fontaine St. Benôit, au Temple du Goût.
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Authorship disputed; according to Pusey, the present work is probably more influenced by Rousseau and Prévost than by Pfeil.
Translation, or adaptation, by Louis-Sébastien Mercier, of: Der Wilde, one of the stories forming part of the work: Versuch in moralischen Erzählungen. Leipzig, 1757.
Original edition, with approbation on p. 310.
There exists also another edition of the same year, published at Amsterdam [i.e. Paris], chez Zacharie.
Title vignette.
Signatures: A-N¹² (A1, A2 verso, A3 verso, N12 blank)
Cf. Chinard, G. L'Amérique et le rêve exotique dans la littérature française au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 1934, p.413.
Cf. Pusey, W.W. Louis-Sébastien Mercier in Germany. New York, 1939, p. 46.
Main character of novel is an American Indian.
Cioranescu, A. 18. s., 44548.
Quérard, J.M. La France littéraire, 6: p. 62.
John Carter Brown Library copy, bound in contemporary calf, imperfect: lacks blank leaf A1.
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