Seneca Unmasqued: Aphra Behn's Translation of La Rochefoucauld's ""Maxims - AMS Studies in the Eighteenth-Century

The second English translation of La Rochefoucauld's maxims was made by Mrs Aphra Behn, a woman who is now admired as England's first professional female author. This facing-page bilingual edition offers an accurate translation of the text, an introduction and extensive annotations of the maxims.