Cambridge Companion to Voltaire, PDF eBook

Cambridge Companion to Voltaire PDF

Edited by Nicholas Cronk

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As a leading thinker of the European Enlightenment, Voltaire is a central figure in France's collective cultural memory.

The popularity of Candide has made him perhaps best known as a writer of tales.

Yet these represent only a fraction of his entire Å“uvre.

Voltaire created a style of authorship which made him the most famous writer in Europe and made him a figurehead for a certain style of writing and thinking.

This Companion covers his plays, fiction, pamphlets, correspondence, biblical criticism, and historical, political and philosophical thought, to give a wide-ranging view of his writings.

The most comprehensive book on Voltaire available in English, it makes accessible the most recent research in France as well as the English-speaking world, in a series of original essays and a guide to sources.

The essays demonstrate why Voltaire remains an essential point of reference in defining the modern intellectual today.

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