The Portable Voltaire

Voltaire

Original title: The portable Voltaire

first published 1949 Viking Press, 1949 hardcover 569 pages

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"The Portable Voltaire" is an excellent compendium of the major works of the man who became the most famous iconoclast of the French Enlightenment. One of the attractions of this particular volume is the introduction by Ben Ray Redman, who delivers with witty, flowing prose an extremely interesting short biography and a summary of the man's philosophy. Normally I don't bother to mention a book's introduction in a rev...

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The Portable Voltaire ebook · 2009 · Penguin USA, Inc. · 9781101122280
The portable Voltaire edition · 1977 · Penguin Books · 569 pages
Portable Voltaire hardcover · 1949 · Viking Press · 569 pages · 9780670010417
portable Voltaire edition · 1949 · Viking Pr.

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