The Portable Voltaire - Paperback
by Voltaire
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Availability:In StockContributor:Voltaire, Ben Ray Redman (Editor), Ben Ray Redman (Introduction by)Series:Portable LibraryAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1977-07-28Pages:576
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140150414ISBN-10:140150412UPC:9780140150414Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, SatireSize:7.79 x 5.05 x 1.14 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCJD4CTFP8
The Portable Voltaire
Includes Part One of Candide; three stories; selections from The Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake, and other works; and thirty-five letters.
Series: Portable Library
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140150414ISBN-10:140150412UPC:9780140150414Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, SatireSize:7.79 x 5.05 x 1.14 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCJD4CTFP8
François-Marie Arouet, writing under the pseudonym Voltaire, was born in 1694 into a Parisian bourgeois family. Educated by Jesuits, he was an excellent pupil but one quickly enraged by dogma. An early rift with his father--who wished him to study law--led to his choice of letters as a career. Insinuating himself into court circles, he became notorious for lampoons on leading notables and was...
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Contributor(s)
Voltaire, Ben Ray Redman (Editor), Ben Ray Redman (Introduction by)
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