François-Marie Arouet: The Quotable Voltaire

Cover: 9781684482917 | The Quotable Voltaire | François-Marie Arouet | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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This unique illustrated volume collects over 800 examples of Voltaire’s wit and wisdom, on topics from adultery to Zoroaster, in both English and French. Along with a scholarly essay on Voltaire’s life and legacy, it also features more than 400 quotes about Voltaire, by everyone from Catherine the Great to Mike Tyson.

Über den Autor

GARRY APGAR is a cartoonist, art historian, author, and editor. A co-founder and current President of the Voltaire Society of America, he co-authored the documentary Voltaire and Jefferson: The Sage of Ferney and the Man from Monticello, and has previously written or edited four books, including L'Art singulier de Jean Huber: Voir Voltaire and most recently, Quotes for Conservatives.

EDWARD LANGILLE is a professor of French at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. An internationally respected authority on eighteenth-century literature and culture, he has published many scholarly articles and books, including new scholarly editions of Voltaire's Aventure indienne and Les Aveugles, juges des couleurs in Oxford University's uvres complètes de Voltaire.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cover

Frontispiece

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface / Garry Apgar and Edward M. Langille

Voltaire: The Life of a Legend / Garry Apgar

Quotations by Voltaire

Voltaire on Voltaire

Contemporary Opinion

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Sachliteratur
Thema:	Fremdsprachige Wörterbücher
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781684482917
ISBN-10:	1684482917
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Arouet (Voltaire) (1694-1778), François-Marie
Redaktion:	Apgar, Garry Langille, Edward M
Hersteller:	Bucknell University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße:	231 x 155 x 33 mm
Von/Mit:	François-Marie Arouet
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.06.2021
Gewicht:	0,662 kg