Voltaire: 685 books

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EXTRAIT: Le goût de bien des lecteurs pour les choses frivoles, et l’envie de faire un volume de ce qui ne devrait remplir que peu de pages, sont cause que l’histoire des hommes célèbres est presque toujours gâtée par des détails inutiles et des...

Ce livre contient les ouvrages suivants classés par ordre alphabétique (noms de famille auteurs ) Le Grand Meaulnes [Alain-Fournier] Alcools [Guillaume Apollinaire] Les Diaboliques [Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly] Les Fleurs du mal [Charles Baudelaire] Un crime d'amour [Paul Bourget] Jane Eyre...

La intolerancia religiosa en Europa durante el siglo XVIII cobró muchas víctimas, entre ellas Jean Calas, un modesto comerciante francés que profesaba la religión protestante quien fue erróneamente acusado y juzgado por asesinar a su hijo en 1762. La sentencia fue morir en la rueda, un brutal...

The picaresque novel (Spanish: "picaresca," from "pícaro," for "rogue" or "rascal") is a genre of prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish hero/heroine of low social class who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society. Picaresque novels typically adopt a realistic style, with elements...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved...

Sometimes you want to read in German. Sometimes you want to read in English. There’s a great option: bilingual books! Bilingual, or dual-language books, are books in which text appears side-by-side in both the target language and English. These are some of the German books to enjoy since you can...

A Bildungsroman (German expression meaning: "novel of formation, education, culture"), novel of formation, novel of education, or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change...

Œdipus was written when Voltaire was but nineteen years of age. It was played for the first time in 1718, and ran for forty-five nights. Du Frêsne, a celebrated actor, and of the same age as the author, played the part of Œdipus; and Madame Desmarêts, a famous actress, did Jocaste, and soon after...

Socrates is a play in three acts about Socrates and the events of his trial and eventual death. Satirical in nature it takes aim at government authority and organized religion. Voltaire's contempt for government and religion come through clearly in this play. Wilder Publications is a green publisher....

A mais aclamada obra de Voltaire, "Cândido", retrata uma vida vergastada de um jovem, cujos ensinamentos de Pangloss, o seu mestre filosófico apontavam para o optimismo e o balanço do Universo. Por mais atacado ainda que fosse pelas agruras da vida, a sua primeira preocupação...

Nouvelle édition de Le Songe creux de Voltaire augmentée d'annexes (Biographie). L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement mis en forme pour votre liseuse. - Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à chapitre ou de livre à livre. - Accédez instantanément à la table des matières hyperliée...

Read the famous novella by Voltaire as a bilingual ebook. Tap on the underlined cross-references to switch between the original French text and the dual language version (French/English). You instantly understand the context, because the text fragments are only 120 characters long on average....

EXTRAIT: Chapitre I. Que les Juifs et leurs livres furent très longtemps ignorés des autres peuples. D’épaisses ténèbres envelopperont toujours le berceau du christianisme. On en peut juger par les huit opinions principales qui partagèrent...