The portable Voltaire / edited, and with an introd., by Ben Ray Redman.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Viking portable libraryPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 1977.Description: v, 569 p. ; 18 cmISBN:- 0140150412
- 9780140150414
- Selections. English. 1977
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 848.509 V935 | Available | 33111006296251 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Includes Part One of Candide ; three stories; selections from The Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake , and other works; and thirty-five letters.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 52).
Editor's introduction -- Some dates in the life of Voltaire -- Brief bibliography of works Voltaire: Philosophical dictionary: Selections -- Miscellany -- Candide -- Zadig -- Micromegas -- Story of a good Brahmin -- Letters: To Frederick the great -- Miscellaneous letters -- Selections from the English letters -- Essay on the manners and spirit of nations: Recapitulation -- Lisbon earthquake: Author's preface -- Lisbon earthquake.
Collects the most significant writings of Voltaire, preceded by a brief biography of the author, a bibliography of his works, and a chronology.