Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They...
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N le 21 novembre 1694Paris o il est mort le 30 mai 1778, est un crivain et philosophe qui a marqu le xviiie si cle et qui occupe une place particuli re dans la m moire collective...
Cette oeuvre est inspir e d'un conte persan intitul Voyages et aventures des trois princes de Serendip. Cependant Zadig va plus loin que les trois princes de Serendip en ce sens...
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Cette pi ce se d roule pendant le si ge de la Mecque par Mahomet en 630. Voltaire ne pr tendit jamais faire oeuvre d'historien; il se savait dramaturge. Au coeur de sa pi ce, l'affrontement...
Dans cette Å"uvre, Voltaire aborde l'histoire de l'Europe avant Charlemagne jusqu'a l'aube du siecle de Louis XIV, en evoquant egalement celle des colonies et de...
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Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But...
Why do bad things happen to good people? Well, why not? The handsome young Candide, having been taught that this is the best of all possible worlds, quickly learns that is far from...
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'What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?' Voltaire's...
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Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire's hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound,...
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One of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought, a French bestseller in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks§§In 1762 Jean Calas, a merchant from Toulouse,...
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Rendu célèbre par le film "Sex and the City", où il apparaît comme livre de chevet de Carrie Bradshaw, ce recueil est une fenêtre ouverte sur l'intimité des figures majeures de...
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Candide est un conte philosophique écrit par Voltaire en 1759. L'histoire suit Candide, un jeune homme optimiste, qui vit de nombreuses aventures à travers le monde après avoir...
Series of short, radical essays analysing the conventions of thought in 18th century France...
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The French author known as Voltaire was born in 1694 to a noble family in the province of Poitou. Voltaire was a writer of the Enlightenment movement and was well known in his own time...
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Beginning in 1689, Jean Meslier worked for around forty years as the priest of the small town of Etripigny, France. When he died, his parishioners were astonished to find his last testament...
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In this little-known work by Voltaire (1694-1778)now available in English for the first time the famous French philosophe and satirist presents a wide-ranging and acerbic survey of...
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Zadig is a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. Voltaire did not attempt historical accuracy with this book. Many of the problems Zadig faces are thinly disguised references to social...
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Candide" is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in...
"C'est un voyage, une fiction ironique sur les désordres du monde, une réflexion souriante sur le bien et le mal, un roman d’apprentissage et, bien sűr, une satire de la société...
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Candide is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply "optimism") by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. Voltaire describes...
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