Voltaire

1,240 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.
Apr 28, 2008
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Complete Works of Voltaire 28B (Complete Works of Voltaire, 28B)

Apr 2, 2008
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CORRESPONDANCE T9

Mar 31, 2008
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Trattato sulla tolleranza

Feb 7, 2008
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Complete Works of Voltaire 63B (Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire, v. 63B) (Complete Works of Voltaire, 63B)

Jan 31, 2008
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Complete Works of Voltaire 136 (Complete Works of Voltaire, #136) (Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire, v. 136)

Nov 29, 2007
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Micromegas et Le monde comme il va

Nov 8, 2007
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Zadig the Book of Fate

Sep 25, 2007
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Complete Works of Voltaire 67 (Complete Works of Voltaire, #67) (Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire, v. 67)

Sep 1, 2007
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Candide, ou l'Optimisime

Aug 16, 2007
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Memoirs of the Life of Monsieur De Voltaire

Jul 11, 2007
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Complete Works of Voltaire 38 (Complete Works of Voltaire, #38)

May 16, 2007
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Big in Japan

Mar 15, 2007
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Voltaire: Philosophical Letters

Mar 1, 2007
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Traite Sur La Tolerance

Jan 30, 2007
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Complete Works of Voltaire 32B (Complete Works of Voltaire, 32B)

Oct 18, 2006
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Le Monde Comme Il Va

Sep 15, 2006
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Micromegas et autres contes

Aug 1, 2006
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Complete Works of Voltaire 28A (Complete Works of Voltaire, 28A)

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Jun 13, 2006
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Micromegas/Zadig/Candide

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Mahomet le prophete

Feb 27, 2006
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Feb 6, 2006
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The Book of Deady