The Works of Voltaire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Works of Voltaire write by Voltaire. This book was released on 1901. The Works of Voltaire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Philosophical Dictionary (哲學辭典)
Philosophical Dictionary (哲學辭典) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophical Dictionary (哲學辭典) write by Voltaire. This book was released on 2011-05-15. Philosophical Dictionary (哲學辭典) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Voltaire in Love
Voltaire in Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voltaire in Love write by Nancy Mitford. This book was released on 2012-11-06. Voltaire in Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The inimitable Nancy Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Châtelet—the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new physics to France—is a spirited romp in the company of two extraordinary individuals as well as an erudite and gossipy guide to French high society during the Enlightenment. Mitford’s story is as delicious as it is complicated. The marquise was in love with another mathematician, Maupertuis, while she had an unexpected rival for Voltaire’s affections in the future Frederick the Great of Prussia (and later in the philosophe’s own niece). There was, at least, no jealous husband to contend with: the Marquis du Châtelet, Mitford assures us, behaved perfectly. The beau monde of Paris was, however, distraught at the idea of the lovers’ brilliant conversation going to waste on the windswept hills of Champagne, site of the Château de Cirey, where experimental laboratories, a darkroom, and a library of more than twenty-one thousand volumes enabled them to pursue their amours philosophiques. From time to time the threat of impending arrest would send Voltaire scurrying across the border into Holland, but his irrepressible charm—and the interventions of powerful friends—always made it possible for him resume his studies with the cherished marquise.
Candide
Candide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Candide write by Voltaire Voltaire. This book was released on 2016-04-02. Candide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Candide by Voltaire from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?' Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?” ― Voltaire, Candide Candide is a young man who is raised in wealth to be an optimist but when he is forced to make his own way in the world, his assumptions and outlook are challenged.
Voltaire Almighty
Voltaire Almighty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voltaire Almighty write by Roger Pearson. This book was released on 2010-12-15. Voltaire Almighty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During much of his life Voltaire's plays and verse made him the toast of society, but his barbed wit and commitment to reason also got him into trouble. Jailed twice and eventually banished by the King, he was an outspoken critic of religious intolerance and persecution. His personal life was as colourful as his intellectual one. Voltaire never married, but had long-term affairs with two women: Emilie, who died after giving birth to the child of another lover, and his niece, Marie-Louise, with whom he spent his last twenty-five years. With its tales of illegitimacy, prison, stardom, exile, love affairs and tireless battles against critics, Church and King, Roger Pearson's brilliant biography brings Voltaire vividly to life.
