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The Portable Voltaire (Portable Library) Paperback – July 28, 1977

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Includes Part One of Candide; three stories; selections from The Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake, and other works; and thirty-five letters.
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    July 28, 1977
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François-Marie Arouet, writing under the pseudonym Voltaire, was born in 1694 into a Parisian bourgeois family. Educated by Jesuits, he was an excellent pupil but one quickly enraged by dogma. An early rift with his father—who wished him to study law—led to his choice of letters as a career. Insinuating himself into court circles, he became notorious for lampoons on leading notables and was twice imprisoned in the Bastille.

By his mid-thirties his literary activities precipitated a four-year exile in England where he won the praise of Swift and Pope for his political tracts. His publication, three years later in France, of Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais (1733)—an attack on French Church and State—forced him to flee again. For twenty years Voltaire lived chiefly away from Paris. In this, his most prolific period, he wrote such satirical tales as “Zadig” (1747) and “Candide” (1759). His old age at Ferney, outside Geneva, was made bright by his adopted daughter, “Belle et Bonne,” and marked by his intercessions in behalf of victims of political injustice. Sharp-witted and lean in his white wig, impatient with all appropriate rituals, he died in Paris in 1778—the foremost French author of his day.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0140150412
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Publishing Group; First Edition (July 28, 1977)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 576 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780140150414
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140150414
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.23 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.76 x 5.08 x 1.17 inches
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Peter R. Talbot
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read: in English here as necessary.
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2021
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Does not include the Henriade, but otherwise good selection with Candide, etc. in good translation. One of the 100 books any educated person must read.
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DeGriffe
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice volume
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2013
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This book has a wonderful collection of Voltaire's writings - all the necessary stuff, well-organized, and the book is nicely printed and bound. Good font, nice paper.

You can open it virtually anywhere to find wondrous writing to fill ten minutes or ten hours, as the case dictates.
I'm about to order another, since a borrower seems to have forgotten its rightful home!
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Jaime E Villanueva
5.0 out of 5 stars Systematic
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Well put together in chronological order of his great writings
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Tomas DeMoss
5.0 out of 5 stars I like that he was not so full of himself as ...
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2015
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If you're into Votaire, you'll want this book. If you're not.... you should be. Voltaire offers something for everyone. Short, powerful reads filled with his wisdom. I like that he was not so full of himself as to not have a sense of humor and be human.
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kevin moser
5.0 out of 5 stars love voltaire
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2020
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good book
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miguel casillas
5.0 out of 5 stars Good guy this guy, eh?
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2019
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A pioneer in civil rights.
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it's a good read
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Chong Lin
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2015
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A master of mind to enlighten human beings from then and even to now.
Very educational. Classic book indeed.
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arsCynic
5.0 out of 5 stars succincte et délicieuse
Reviewed in France on March 9, 2022
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L'introduction de l'éditeur, rédigée par Ben Ray Redman, est très complète, mais si succincte et délicieuse qu'elle constitue à elle seule une raison suffisante pour ajouter Le Voltaire portable à votre bibliothèque.
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Jerry J.
5.0 out of 5 stars A genius who was a brave man .
Reviewed in Canada on September 1, 2016
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A very interesting creative genius . Fascinating reading . He;s a man's man , someone who has well thought out ideas for the knowledge available in his time . What is particularly interesting is the similarity between the catholic Inquisition and its barbarity and that of the the Muslin terrorists today , along with his comments of religious fanaticism . He lived his beliefs and I found him to be a person with whom it would have been a great experience to spend some time with over a beer !
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