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VOLTAIRE'S TRAGEDIES: 20+ Plays in One Volume - Merope Caesar Olympia The Orphan of China Brutus Amelia Oedipus Mariamne Socrates Zaire Orestes Alzire Catilina Pandora The Scotch Woman Nanine The Prude The Tatler and more - cover

VOLTAIRE'S TRAGEDIES: 20+ Plays in One Volume - Merope Caesar Olympia The Orphan of China Brutus Amelia Oedipus Mariamne Socrates Zaire Orestes Alzire Catilina Pandora The Scotch Woman Nanine The Prude The Tatler and more

Voltaire

Translator William F. Fleming

Publisher: e-artnow

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This carefully crafted ebook: "VOLTAIRE'S TRAGEDIES: 20+ Plays in One Volume" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
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:
Mahomet
Merope
Olympia
The Orphan of China
Brutus
Amelia
Oedipus
Mariamne
Socrates
Zaire
Caesar
The Prodigal
Alzire
Orestes
Semiramis
Catilina
Pandora
The Scotch Woman
Nanine
The Prude
The Tatler

Available since: 03/02/2016.

Print length: 1030 pages.

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