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Voltaire: Collected Romances: 20+ Novels Short Stories Satires & Fables (Illustrated Edition) - Candide Zadig The Huron Plato's Dream Micromegas The White Bull - cover

Voltaire: Collected Romances: 20+ Novels Short Stories Satires & Fables (Illustrated Edition) - Candide Zadig The Huron Plato's Dream Micromegas The White Bull

Voltaire

Translator Tobias Smollett, William F. Fleming, William Walton

Publisher: Musaicum Books

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Summary

This unique collection of Voltaire's most iconic romances has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards.

François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He was an outspoken advocate of several liberties, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.

Table of Contents:

Candide

Zadig

Micromegas

The Huron

The White Bull

The Man of Forty Crowns

The Princess of Babylon

The Sage and the Atheist

Memnon the Philosopher

The Black and the White

The World as it Goes

Andre des Touches at Siam

Bababec

Jeannot and Colin

The Travels of Scarmentado

A Conversation with a Chinese

Plato's Dream

Pleasure in Having no Pleasure

An Adventure in India

The Good Brahmin

The Two Comforters

Ancient Faith and Fable

The Study of Nature

Dialogue between Marcus Aurelius and a Recollet Friar

Dialogue between a Brahmin and a Jesuit

Dialogues between Lucretius and Posidonius

Dialogue between a Client and His Lawyer

Dialogue between Madame De Maintenon and Mademoiselle De L'Enclos

Dialogue between a Savage and a Bachelor of Arts
Available since: 06/28/2017.
Print length: 951 pages.

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