Author:Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot
(1713–1784)

Denis Diderot

Works

Novels

• The Indiscreet Jewels (Les Bijoux indiscrets, 1748)
• Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (Jacques le fataliste et son maître, 1778) (external scan)
• The Nun (La Religieuse, 1796)

Plays

• The Natural Son (Le Fils naturel, 1757)
• The Father of the Family (Le Père de famille, 1758)

Non Fiction

• Encyclopédie [1]
• The System of Nature, Or, Laws of the Moral and Physical World (1889) (external scan)
• Diderot's Early Philosophical Works (1916) (external scan)

Essays

• Rameau's Nephew (Le Neveu de Rameau, 1761)
• Code de la nature (1841) (external scan)
• The Paradox of Acting (1883) (external scan)
• Diderot's Thoughts on Art & Style: With Some of His Shorter Essays (1904) (external scan)

Works about Diderot

• "Diderot, Denis," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• Robert Ingersoll, “Diderot” in The Great Infidels, 1881.
• Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, Books VII and IX, London, 1903.
• "Diderot, Denis," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Diderot, Denis," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Diderot, Denis," by Viscount Morley of Blackburn in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Education of the Blind," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "French Literature," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Diderot, Denis," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• “Diderot, Denis” by Joseph McCabe in A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers, 1945.