Vivian Folkenflik is Lecturer in the Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, and editor and translator of An Extraordinary Woman: Selected Writings of Germaine de Stael. Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library and the author of The Devil in the Holy Water, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"Who could resist the pleasure of discovering not only an unknown eighteenth-century writer (scoundrel, adventurer, charmer, reprobate) but also his long-lost masterpiece-a picareque novel that is at once bildungsroman, autobiography, libertine treatise, and roman a clef? ... Witty and outrageous, the novel was lost as soon as it was published in 1790. Today, beautifully translated into English by Folkenflik, it seems remarkably modern... Essential."-Choice "There is every reason to be grateful for this exemplary edition of a text that should have taken its place long ago on the shelves of any reader interested in eighteenth-century culture and philosophical tales. Vivian Folkenflik's elegant, literary translation respects the novel's playful energy and fully conveys what she describes as the 'semi-complicit relationship Pelleport establishes with his readers.'"-H-France Reviews

• IntroductionTranslator's NoteList of Main CharactersChapter 1. The Legislator Bissot Renounces Chicanery in Favor of PhilosophyChapter 2. The Two Brothers Wander on the Plains of ChampagneChapter 3. Supper Better Than DinnerChapter 4. Who Were These People Supping Under the Stars on the Plains of Champagne?Chapter 5. Reveille; The Troupe Marches Forward; Unremarkable AdventuresChapter 6. Cock-CrowChapter 7. After Which, Try to Say There Are No Ghosts . . .Chapter 8. The DenouementChapter 9. Nocturnal Adventures That Deserve to See the Light of Day, and Worthy of an Academician's PenChapter 10. The Terrible Effects of CausesChapter 11. Uncivil DissertationsChapter 12. Parallel of Mendicant and Proprietary MonksChapter 13. Various Projects Highly Important to the Public WealChapter 14. On HospitalityChapter 15. Morning Matins at the CharterhouseChapter 16. Panegyric of the ClergyChapter 17. A Mouse with Only One Hole Is Easy to TakeChapter 18. How Lungiet Was Interrupted by a MiracleChapter 19. Which Will Not Be LongChapter 20. A Pilgrim's NarrativeChapter 21. Continuation of the Pilgrim's NarrativeNotes

Vivian Folkenflik is Lecturer in the Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, and editor and translator of An Extraordinary Woman: Selected Writings of Germaine de Stael. Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library and the author of The Devil in the Holy Water, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"Who could resist the pleasure of discovering not only an unknown eighteenth-century writer (scoundrel, adventurer, charmer, reprobate) but also his long-lost masterpiece-a picareque novel that is at once bildungsroman, autobiography, libertine treatise, and roman a clef? ... Witty and outrageous, the novel was lost as soon as it was published in 1790. Today, beautifully translated into English by Folkenflik, it seems remarkably modern... Essential."-Choice "There is every reason to be grateful for this exemplary edition of a text that should have taken its place long ago on the shelves of any reader interested in eighteenth-century culture and philosophical tales. Vivian Folkenflik's elegant, literary translation respects the novel's playful energy and fully conveys what she describes as the 'semi-complicit relationship Pelleport establishes with his readers.'"-H-France Reviews

• IntroductionTranslator's NoteList of Main CharactersChapter 1. The Legislator Bissot Renounces Chicanery in Favor of PhilosophyChapter 2. The Two Brothers Wander on the Plains of ChampagneChapter 3. Supper Better Than DinnerChapter 4. Who Were These People Supping Under the Stars on the Plains of Champagne?Chapter 5. Reveille; The Troupe Marches Forward; Unremarkable AdventuresChapter 6. Cock-CrowChapter 7. After Which, Try to Say There Are No Ghosts . . .Chapter 8. The DenouementChapter 9. Nocturnal Adventures That Deserve to See the Light of Day, and Worthy of an Academician's PenChapter 10. The Terrible Effects of CausesChapter 11. Uncivil DissertationsChapter 12. Parallel of Mendicant and Proprietary MonksChapter 13. Various Projects Highly Important to the Public WealChapter 14. On HospitalityChapter 15. Morning Matins at the CharterhouseChapter 16. Panegyric of the ClergyChapter 17. A Mouse with Only One Hole Is Easy to TakeChapter 18. How Lungiet Was Interrupted by a MiracleChapter 19. Which Will Not Be LongChapter 20. A Pilgrim's NarrativeChapter 21. Continuation of the Pilgrim's NarrativeNotes

Vivian Folkenflik is Lecturer in the Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, and editor and translator of An Extraordinary Woman: Selected Writings of Germaine de Stael. Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library and the author of The Devil in the Holy Water, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"Who could resist the pleasure of discovering not only an unknown eighteenth-century writer (scoundrel, adventurer, charmer, reprobate) but also his long-lost masterpiece-a picareque novel that is at once bildungsroman, autobiography, libertine treatise, and roman a clef? ... Witty and outrageous, the novel was lost as soon as it was published in 1790. Today, beautifully translated into English by Folkenflik, it seems remarkably modern... Essential."-Choice "There is every reason to be grateful for this exemplary edition of a text that should have taken its place long ago on the shelves of any reader interested in eighteenth-century culture and philosophical tales. Vivian Folkenflik's elegant, literary translation respects the novel's playful energy and fully conveys what she describes as the 'semi-complicit relationship Pelleport establishes with his readers.'"-H-France Reviews

• IntroductionTranslator's NoteList of Main CharactersChapter 1. The Legislator Bissot Renounces Chicanery in Favor of PhilosophyChapter 2. The Two Brothers Wander on the Plains of ChampagneChapter 3. Supper Better Than DinnerChapter 4. Who Were These People Supping Under the Stars on the Plains of Champagne?Chapter 5. Reveille; The Troupe Marches Forward; Unremarkable AdventuresChapter 6. Cock-CrowChapter 7. After Which, Try to Say There Are No Ghosts . . .Chapter 8. The DenouementChapter 9. Nocturnal Adventures That Deserve to See the Light of Day, and Worthy of an Academician's PenChapter 10. The Terrible Effects of CausesChapter 11. Uncivil DissertationsChapter 12. Parallel of Mendicant and Proprietary MonksChapter 13. Various Projects Highly Important to the Public WealChapter 14. On HospitalityChapter 15. Morning Matins at the CharterhouseChapter 16. Panegyric of the ClergyChapter 17. A Mouse with Only One Hole Is Easy to TakeChapter 18. How Lungiet Was Interrupted by a MiracleChapter 19. Which Will Not Be LongChapter 20. A Pilgrim's NarrativeChapter 21. Continuation of the Pilgrim's NarrativeNotes