Voltaire: 685 books

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. On March 10, 1762, Jean Calas, a Protestant merchant, was publicly executed in Toulouse, France. This punishment had been prescribed by the regional parliament, with hopes that Calas would confess to murdering his adult...

This tragedy was produced in 1730. It marks Voltaire's spirit of daring in treating a subject from which Shakespeare shrank as, perhaps, too painful for representation. When revived during the Revolution it was enthusiastically applauded. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books...

Contents A Piece of Bread By Francois Coppee The Elixir of Life By Honore De Balzac The Age For Love By Paul Bourget Mateo Falcone By Prosper Merimee The Mirror By Catulle Mendes My Nephew Joseph By Ludovic Halevy A Forest Betrothal By Erckmann-chatrian Zadig the Babylonian By Francois Marie...

One of Voltaire's earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France

Nouvelle édition de Le crocheteur borgne 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...

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The Greatest Books of All Time Vol. 3 contains the following 10 Masterpieces : Candide - Voltaire David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Emma - Jane Austen Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James The Scarlet...

François-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. Alzire first appeared on the stage in 1736 to great acclaim and success. Alzire is set Lima, Peru, at the...

Sometimes you want to read in French. 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 French books to enjoy since you can...

This powerful work was read by Voltaire to Frederick of Prussia in 1740, to the king's great delight. The play was withdrawn after the fourth representation, under pressure of Church authorities who professed to see in it a bloody satire against the Christian religion. Almost three hundred years later...

François-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. "Yet it is too soon. When I possess the crown, your faithful eyes Shall be the witnesses of all my deeds....

François-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. Fate would make us wretched here, But hope shall dry up every tear; In sorrow he shall give us rest, And make...

François-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. Her eyes are sunk in darkness: help the king And guard his life. Learn from her sad example, That heaven is...