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Authorship disputed; according to Pusey, the present work is probably more influenced by Rousseau and Prévost than by Pfeil.
Originally published Paris, 1767.
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.
Title vignette: floral basket.
Signatures: pi² A-T⁸ V⁶ (pi1 verso, pi2 verso blank)
Cf. Chinard, G. L'Amérique et le rêve exotique dans la littérature française au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 1934, p.413, 443.
Cf. Pusey, W.W. Louis-Sébastien Mercier in Germany. New York, 1939, p.46.
Main character of novel is an American Indian.
"Théatre complet de M. Mercier, en huit volumes in-8. précédé de l'Essai sur l'art dramatique, proposé par souscription. (p.[1-2] at end)
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