Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac

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Le Pédant joué (play) 1645

La Mort d'Agrippine (play) 1646

*Lettres (essays) 1648-54

L'Autre Monde ou les Etats et empires de la lune (novel) c. 1648-50

Les Etats et empires du soleil (novel) c. 1650

Les Œuvres libertines de Cyrano de Bergerac parisien. 2 vols. (collected works) 1921

*Two manuscripts of letters by Cyrano survive, one from 1648, the other from 1654. Scholars often divide the letters into three groups: Lettres diverses, Lettres satiriques and Lettres amoureuses.

†Modern editions typically present these two works as parts of a single novel, which is called L'Autre Monde. The most common English translation, by Richard Aldington (1923; revised 1962), is entitled Voyages to the Moon and the Sun. The first part, which may have been written as early as 1648, was first published posthumously in 1657 as L'Histoire comique par Monsieur de Cyrano Bergerac. Contenant Les Estats et Empires de la Lune. The second part, which Cyrano himself referred to as L'Histoire de la République du Soleil, may have been started as early as 1650 but remained unfinished; it was not published until 1662.

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