Voltaire

1,241 books • 36 series

Imprisoned in the Bastille at the age of twenty-three for a criminal libel against the Regent of France, François-Marie Arouet was freed in 1718 with a new name, Voltaire, and the completed manuscript of his first play, Oedipe, which became a huge hit on the Paris stage in the same year. For the rest of his long and dangerously eventful life, this cadaverous genius shone with uninterrupted brilliance as one of the most famous men in the world. Revered, and occasionally reviled, in the royal courts of Europe, his literary outpourings and fearless campaigning against the medieval injustices of church and state in the midst of the ‘Enlightenment’ did much to trigger the French Revolution and to formulate the present notions of democracy. But above all, Voltaire was an observer of the human condition, and his masterpiece Candide stands out as an astonishing testament to his unequalled insight into the way we were and probably always will be.
Mar 21, 2010
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L'ami Des Muses

Mar 16, 2010
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Candid

Mar 16, 2010
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A Philosophical Dictionary Volume 1

Jan 3, 2010
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Le Dernier Volume Des OEuvres De Voltaire

Dec 31, 2009
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Zadig, and Other Stories

Dec 1, 2009
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Complete Works of Voltaire 75B (Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire, v. 75) (Complete Works of Voltaire, 75B)

Nov 18, 2009
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Complete Works of Voltaire 22 (Complete Works of Voltaire, #22)

Oct 1, 2009
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Socrates (Unexpurgated Start Publishing LLC)

Sep 30, 2009
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Le philosophe ignorant

Sep 11, 2009
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Micromegas/L'Ingenu

Aug 10, 2009
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Complete Works of Voltaire 75A (Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire) (Complete Works of Voltaire, 75A)

Jun 9, 2009
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Complete Works of Voltaire 45A (Complete Works of Voltaire, 45A)

May 26, 2009
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Complete Works of Voltaire 80C (Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire, v. 80) (Complete Works of Voltaire, 80C)

May 13, 2009
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Letters on England

Apr 27, 2009
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Complete Works of Voltaire 49B (Complete Works of Voltaire, 49B)

Apr 3, 2009
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Complete Works of Voltaire 137A-B (Complete Works of Voltaire, 137A-B) (Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire, v. 137)

Feb 23, 2009
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Candide, with eBook

Jan 21, 2009
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L'AFFAIRE DU CHEVALIER DE LA BARRE

Dec 22, 2008
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Complete Works of Voltaire 80B (Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire, v. 80) (Complete Works of Voltaire, 80B)

Nov 27, 2008
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Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations

Sep 30, 2008
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Complete Works of Voltaire 18C (Complete Works of Voltaire, 18C)

Aug 25, 2008
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Letters from M. de Voltaire, to Several of his Friends

Aug 1, 2008
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Candide and Zadig (Classic Fiction)

Jun 12, 2008
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Complete Works of Voltaire 142 (Complete Works of Voltaire, #142) (Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire, v. 142)