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Voltaire and His Times (Classic Reprint)

Author : Laurence Felix Bungener
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332763085
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire and His Times (Classic Reprint) written by Laurence Felix Bungener and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Voltaire and His Times Here, then, there is only a pause, of which we avail our selves for the purpose of taking a general view of the collee tive character of that epoch, and of studying in fuller detail some of the questions by which it was agitated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Works of Voltaire, Vol. 1 of 43

Author : John Morley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331678069
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Voltaire, Vol. 1 of 43 written by John Morley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Voltaire, Vol. 1 of 43: A Contemporary Version Students of Voltaire need \not be told that nearly every important Circumstance in connection with the history of this extraordinary man, from his birth to the final interment of his ashes in the Panthéon at Paris, is still matter of bitter con troversy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Works of M. de Voltaire, Vol. 9

Author : Voltaire Voltaire
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282355272
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book The Works of M. de Voltaire, Vol. 9 written by Voltaire Voltaire and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of M. De Voltaire, Vol. 9: Translated From the French, With Notes, Historical and Critical Voiture ave fome idea of the light graces of that epiffiolary ilile, which is by no means the belt, becaufe it confiils only of pleafantry. It is owing to a triﬂing imagination, that in his two volumes of letters not one of them is in firut'live, or fecms to come from the heart. None of them depict the manners of the times, the charaﬂers of men. They are rather an abufe than exercife of genius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Toleration and Other Essays (Classic Reprint)

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265846926
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Toleration and Other Essays (Classic Reprint) written by Voltaire and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Toleration and Other Essays IT seems useful, in presenting to English readers this selection of the works of Voltaire, to recall the position and personality of the writer and the circumstances in which the works were written. It is too lightly assumed, even by many who enjoy the freedom which he, more than any, won for Europe, and who may surpass him in scepticism, that Vol taire is a figure to be left in a discreetly remote niche of memory. Other times, other manners is one of the phrases he contributed to modern literature. Let us genially acknowledge that he played a great part in dispelling the last mists of the Middle Ages, and politely attribute to the papal perversity and the lingering vulgarity of his age the more effective features Of his work. Thus has Voltaire become a mere name to modern rational ists; a name of fading brilliance, a monumental name, but nothing more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Works of Voltaire, Vol. 15 of 43

Author : John Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330994979
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Voltaire, Vol. 15 of 43 written by John Morley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Voltaire, Vol. 15 of 43: A Contemporary Version With Notes Dramatis Personae. Merope, Widow of Cresphontes, King of Messene. Jegisthus, Son of Merope. Poliphontes, Tyrant of Messene. Narbas, an old Man. Euricles, Favorite of Merope. Erox, Favorite of Poliphontes. Ismenia, Confidante of Merope. Scene At Messene, in the Palace of Merope. "Merope," produced in 1743, is the greatest of Voltaire's tragedies and a perfect literary performance. Frederick the Great amused himself by turning it into the libretto of an opera. Its success was great and the author was called before the curtain, an honor until then unknown in France. The interest of the following correspondence justifies its length. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

The Dramatic Works of Voltaire, Vol. 8

Author : Voltaire Voltaire
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266379645
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book The Dramatic Works of Voltaire, Vol. 8 written by Voltaire Voltaire and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of Voltaire, Vol. 8: Part I The preceptor of Alexander - kings ought always to have such preceptors - the great Aristotle, that extensive genius, so just, and so deeply versed in all the learning of those times, Aristotle, in his art of poetry, has declared that the meeting of M erope and her son was the most interesting circumstance of the whole Grecian theatre. This stroke was, in his opinion, infinitely superior to all the rest. Plutarch tells us, that the Greeks, who, of all the people in the world, had the quickest feeling, trembled with fear, lest the old man who was to stop the arm of M erope, should not come in time enough. That piece, which was played in his time, and a few fragments of which are still extant, appeared to him the most affecting of all the tragedies of Euripides but it was not the choice of his subject alone to which that poet owed his success, though in every species of the drama, 3. Happy choice is, no doubt, of the greatest service. F rance' has seen several M eropes, but none of them ever succeeded: the authors perhaps over loaded this Simple subject with foreign ornaments: it was the naked Venus of Praxiteles which they wanted to cover with tinsel. It requires a great deal of time to teach men that everything which is great Should be simple and natural. In 1641, when the French ﬂag began to ﬂourish, and even to raise itself above that of Greece, by the genius of P. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Varieties of History

Author : Fritz Stern
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 039471962X
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The Varieties of History written by Fritz Stern and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1973-09-12 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Voltaire to Marx and Engels, this anthology explores history from the viewpoint of historians. The text includes influential works such as “The New Philosophical History” by Voltaire, “History as Biography” by Thomas Carlyle, and “A New Economic History” by R. W. Fogel. "I cannot imagine a more engaging and instructive introduction to the fascinations of historical writing than Fritz Stern's classic The Varieties of History."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., City University of New York "This book contains not only an excellent selection of passages which characterize the ideas and the work of leading historians from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, but the book in its entirety provides a stimulating survey of the entire development of modern historiography."—Felix Gilbert, The Institute for Advanced Study "It is by all odds the best kind of introduction to the study and, what is more, to the enjoyment, of history."—Crane Brinton

Voltaire in Love

Author : Nancy Mitford
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175786
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire in Love written by Nancy Mitford and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inimitable Nancy Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Châtelet—the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new physics to France—is a spirited romp in the company of two extraordinary individuals as well as an erudite and gossipy guide to French high society during the Enlightenment. Mitford’s story is as delicious as it is complicated. The marquise was in love with another mathematician, Maupertuis, while she had an unexpected rival for Voltaire’s affections in the future Frederick the Great of Prussia (and later in the philosophe’s own niece). There was, at least, no jealous husband to contend with: the Marquis du Châtelet, Mitford assures us, behaved perfectly. The beau monde of Paris was, however, distraught at the idea of the lovers’ brilliant conversation going to waste on the windswept hills of Champagne, site of the Château de Cirey, where experimental laboratories, a darkroom, and a library of more than twenty-one thousand volumes enabled them to pursue their amours philosophiques. From time to time the threat of impending arrest would send Voltaire scurrying across the border into Holland, but his irrepressible charm—and the interventions of powerful friends—always made it possible for him resume his studies with the cherished marquise.

Voltaire and His Times

Author : Félix Bungener
Publisher : Arkose Press
ISBN 13 : 9781346182742
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire and His Times written by Félix Bungener and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-11-07 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Voltaire's Zaïre and Épîtres

Author : Voltaire Voltaire
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332686431
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire's Zaïre and Épîtres written by Voltaire Voltaire and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Voltaire's Zaïre and Épîtres: Edited With Introduction and Notes In connection with the Introduction, which contains a survey of the literature of the eighteenth century, a biographical sketch of the author, and a brief critical review of the tragedy, the study of these carefully selected pieces may enable the student to form a fair idea of the work and the genius, as well as of the limitations, of this extraordinary man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Voltaire's Bastards

Author : John Ralston Saul
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476718938
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire's Bastards written by John Ralston Saul and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new Introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. With a new introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) astutely dissects the political, economic and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. The Western world is full of paradoxes. We talk endlessly of individual freedom, yet we’ve never been under more pressure to conform. Our business leaders describe themselves as capitalists, yet most are corporate employees and financial speculators. We call our governments democracies, yet few of us participate in politics. We complain about invasive government, yet our legal, educational, financial, social, cultural and legislative systems are deteriorating. All these problems, John Ralston Saul argues, are largely the result of our blind faith in the value of reason. Over the past 400 years, our “rational elites” have turned the modern West into a vast, incomprehensible, directionless machine, run by process-minded experts—“Voltaire’s bastards”—whose cult of scientific management is empty of both sense and morality. Whether in politics, art, business, the military, entertainment, science, finance, academia or journalism, these experts share the same outlook and methods. The result, Saul maintains, is a civilization of immense technological power whose ordinary citizens are increasingly excluded from the decision-making process. In this wide-ranging anatomy of modern society and its origins—whose “pages explode with insight, style and intellectual rigor” (Camille Paglia, The Washington Post)—Saul presents a shattering critique of the political, economic and cultural establishments of the West.

Diderot

Author : R. Loyalty Cru
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267827183
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Diderot written by R. Loyalty Cru and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Diderot: As a Disciple of English Thought Churton Collins, Bolingbroke; Voltaire in England, reprinted With additions in Voltaire, Montesquieu fand Rousseau in England, 1908. Bolingbroke. And his times, 2 vols, 1901.-to which One may add Ballantyne, Voltaire 's Visit to England, 1893, and two articles On the same subject by M. L. Foulet in Re'v. D'hist. Litt., 1906, 1908. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Works of Voltaire, Vol. 22

Author : Rt Hon John Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330820278
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Voltaire, Vol. 22 written by Rt Hon John Morley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Voltaire, Vol. 22: A Contemporary Version It is not only the life of Louis XIV. that we propose to write; we have a greater object in view. We mean to set before posterity not only the portrait of one mans actions but that of the spirit of mankind in general, in the most enlightened of all ages. Every age has produced heroes and politicians; all nations have experienced revolutions, and all histories are nearly alike to those who seek only to furnish their memories with facts; but whosoever thinks, or, what is still more rare, whosoever has taste, will find but four ages in the history of the world. These four happy ages are those in which the arts were carried to perfection, and which, by serving as the era of the greatness of the human mind, are examples for posterity. The first of these ages to which true glory is annexed is that of Philip and Alexander, or that of a Pericles, a Demosthenes, an Aristotle, a Plato, an Apelles, a Phidias, and a Praxiteles; and this honor has been confined within the limits of ancient Greece; the rest of the known world was then in a state of barbarism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521649698
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance written by Voltaire and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire is widely known as the author of a literary masterpiece, Candide, while his reputation as a thinker rests largely on his Philosophical Letters and Philosophical Dictionary. He is equally renowned as a critic of the forces of superstition and fanaticism, and a champion of freedom of thought and belief. The works presented here, in a new English translation, are among the most important and characteristic texts of the Enlightenment, and bring together all three aspects of Voltaire: the writer, the doer and the philosophe. Originating in Voltaire's campaign to exonerate Jean Calas, they are works of polemical brilliance, informed by his deism and humanism and by Enlightenment values and ideals more generally. The issues which they raise, concerning questions of tolerance and human dignity, are still highly relevant to our own times. This volume presents them together with an introduction by Simon Harvey and useful notes on further reading.

Candide

Author : Voltaire Voltaire
Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1681959526
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Candide written by Voltaire Voltaire and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candide by Voltaire from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?' Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?” ― Voltaire, Candide Candide is a young man who is raised in wealth to be an optimist but when he is forced to make his own way in the world, his assumptions and outlook are challenged.

The Collected Works of Voltaire

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of Voltaire written by Voltaire and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-12-10 with total page 4354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. Table of Contents: Novels Candide Zadig Micromegas The Huron The White Bull The Man of Forty Crowns The Princess of Babylon The Sage and the Atheist Stories Memnon the Philosopher The Black and the White The World as it Goes Andre des Touches at Siam Bababec Jeannot and Colin The Travels of Scarmentado A Conversation with a Chinese Plato's Dream Pleasure in Having no Pleasure An Adventure in India The Good Brahmin The Two Comforters Ancient Faith and Fable The Study of Nature Dialogues Plays Mahomet Merope Olympia The Orphan of China Brutus Amelia Oedipus Mariamne Socrates Zaire Caesar The Prodigal Alzire Orestes Semiramis Catilina Pandora The Scotch Woman Nanine The Prude The Tatler Poems Henriade (Canto IX) The Lisbon Earthquake and Other Poems Philosophical Works A Philosophical Dictionary Letters on England Treatise on Tolerance Historical Works Age of Louis XIV The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia Letters Letters to Jonathan Swift Letter from Voltaire to Charles Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau Literary Criticism Voltaire and England by Lytton Strachey Voltaire's Tragedies by Lytton Strachey Voltaire and Frederick the Great by Lytton Strachey Lectures on Voltaire by Robert Green Ingersoll Biographies Voltaire: A Sketch of His Life and Works by G. W. Foote and J. M. Wheeler Voltaire by John Morley Voltaire in the Netherlands by C. A. Van Sypesteyn Voltaire by George Saintsbury

The Quotable Voltaire

Author : François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) (1694-1778)
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684482933
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book The Quotable Voltaire written by François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) (1694-1778) and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of more than 2,000 books and pamphlets, Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) was one of the most prolific writers of the eighteenth century, and also one of the wittiest and most insightful. This unique collection of over 800 of Voltaire’s wisest passages and choicest bons mots runs the gamut on topics from adultery to Zoroaster, in both English and French. Drawing from a wide range of his publications, private letters, and remarks recorded by his contemporaries, The Quotable Voltaire includes material never before gathered in a single volume. English translations appear alongside the original French, and each quote is thoroughly indexed and referenced, with page numbers for both the first known publication edition of each entry and the most recent edition of Voltaire’s works. The book also features over 400 quotes about Voltaire, including commentary by eighteenth-century luminaries like Samuel Johnson, Catherine the Great, Casanova, and John Adams, as well as an eclectic assortment of modern-day personages ranging from Winston Churchill and Jorge Luis Borges to Mae West and Mike Tyson. Lavishly illustrated with nearly three dozen images of Voltaire-related art, this collection opens with a scholarly essay that recounts the great man’s life and reflects on his outsized influence on Western culture. Whether you are a Voltaire scholar or a neophyte, The Quotable Voltaire is the perfect introduction to a brilliant mind.