{"product_id":"the-portable-voltaire-paperback","title":"The Portable Voltaire - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVoltaire\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBen Ray Redman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eBen Ray Redman\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes Part One of \u003ci\u003eCandide\u003c\/i\u003e; three stories; selections from \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake\u003c\/i\u003e, and other works; and thirty-five letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrançois-Marie Arouet\u003c\/b\u003e, writing under the pseudonym \u003cb\u003eVoltaire\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 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 \u003cb\u003eLettres philosophiques sur les Anglais\u003c\/b\u003e (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 \"\u003cb\u003eZadig\u003c\/b\u003e\" (1747) and \"\u003cb\u003eCandide\u003c\/b\u003e\" (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.14 x 7.79 x 5.05 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 28, 1977\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42691386736703,"sku":"9780140150414","price":27.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/bd1530ad73262a9f1a3525c649c292be.webp?v=1764991936","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-portable-voltaire-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}