Les aventures de Télémaque suivies des aventures d'Aristonoüs by Fénelon
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"Les aventures de Télémaque suivies des aventures d'Aristonoüs" by Fénelon is a didactic novel written in the 1690s and first published in 1699. The work follows young Télémaque, guided by Mentor—actually the goddess Minerva in disguise—through adventures across Mediterranean lands including Sicily, Egypt, and Phoenicia. Through these travels, the story serves as both moral instruction and political treatise, presenting ideals of governance that contemporaries read as veiled criticism of Louis XIV's absolutism.
The novel profoundly influenced Enlightenment philosophy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715 |
|---|---|
| Title | Les aventures de Télémaque suivies des aventures d'Aristonoüs |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Aventures_de_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9maque Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Aventures_de_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9maque_(F%C3%A9nelon) |
| Credits |
Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at DP Europe (dp.rastko.net); produced from images of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 71.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Historical fiction |
| Subject | Fantasy fiction |
| Subject | Didactic fiction |
| Subject | Adventure stories |
| Subject | Education of princes -- Fiction |
| Subject | Telemachus (Greek mythology) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Princes -- Greece -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 30779 |
| Release Date | Dec 28, 2009 |
| Last Update | Feb 6, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 667 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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