The Portable Voltaire (Portable Library) - Softcover

Buch 9 von 19: Portable Library

Redman, Ben; Voltaire, Francois

 
9780140150414: The Portable Voltaire (Portable Library)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140150412 ISBN 13: 9780140150414
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1977

Inhaltsangabe

Includes Part One of Candide; three stories; selections from The Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake, and other works; and thirty-five letters.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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 twice imprisoned in the Bastille.

By his mid-thirties his literary activities precipitated a four-year exile in England where he won the praise of Swift and Pope for his political tracts. His publication, three years later in France, of Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais (1733)—an attack on French Church and State—forced him to flee again. For twenty years Voltaire lived chiefly away from Paris. In this, his most prolific period, he wrote such satirical tales as “Zadig” (1747) and “Candide” (1759). His old age at Ferney, outside Geneva, was made bright by his adopted daughter, “Belle et Bonne,” and marked by his intercessions in behalf of victims of political injustice. Sharp-witted and lean in his white wig, impatient with all appropriate rituals, he died in Paris in 1778—the foremost French author of his day.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1977
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140150412
ISBN 13 
9780140150414
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576
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