Description
| Product ID: | 9780140445411 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Fable of the Bees |
| Authors: | Author: Bernard Mandeville, Phillip Harth |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Poetry anthologies (various poets), Poetry anthologies (various poets), Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
| Description: | A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, the author published versions of his notorious "Fable of the Bees" from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem "The Angry Hive, 1705". This masterpiece of eighteenth-century British satire sparked great social controversy by rejecting a positive view of human nature and arguing the necessity of vice as the foundation of an emerging capitalist economy. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1989-04-27 |
