Includes Part One of Candide; three stories; selections from The Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake, and other works; and thirty-five letters.
Includes Part One of Candide; three stories; selections from The Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake, and other works; and thirty-five letters.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
Editor's Introduction Some Dates in the Life of Voltaire A Brief Biography of Works by Voltaire Philosophical Dictionary Selections Miscellany Candide Zadig Micromegas Story of a Good Brahmin Letters To Frederick the Great Miscellaneous Letters Selections from The English Letters Essay on the Manners and Spirit of Nations Recapitulation The Lisbon Earthquake Author's Preface The Lisbon Earthquake
Editor's Introduction Some Dates in the Life of Voltaire A Brief Biography of Works by Voltaire Philosophical Dictionary Selections Miscellany Candide Zadig Micromegas Story of a Good Brahmin Letters To Frederick the Great Miscellaneous Letters Selections from The English Letters Essay on the Manners and Spirit of Nations Recapitulation The Lisbon Earthquake Author's Preface The Lisbon Earthquake
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