The Bernard Mandeville Page
( 1670 - 1733 )
Major Works
Some Fables after the Method of La Fontaine ( 1703 ). Verse translations of some fables of La Fontaine, with a couple of his own.
Aesop Dress'd; or, A Collection of Fables ( 1704 ). An expanded version of his earlier work.
The Grumbling Hive; or, Knaves Turned Honest ( 1705 ) Edited by Jack Lynch.
The Virgin Unmask'd; or, Female Dialogues ( 1709 ).
The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits ( 1714; 1723 ). The standard edition of this major work of Mandeville's is that of F. B. Kaye, published in two volumes by Oxford, 1924. That work was reprinted by Liberty Classics, 1988. Philip Harth edited and introduced the Penguin Books Fable in 1970. The latter is the most accessible for undergraduates.
A Letter to Dion ( 1732 ).
About Mandeville
Richard I. Cook, Bernard Mandeville. Twayne, 1974.
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