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Voltaire in Exile

Door Ian Davidson

Categorie
Secundair
Boeknummer
#286956
Titel
Voltaire in Exile
Auteur
Davidson, Ian
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Atlantic Books
Jaar van uitgave
2004
ISBN10
1843540878
ISBN13
9781843540878
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original giltlettered hardcover, price-clipped dust jacket, some b/w illustrations.
Samenvatting
In 1753, Voltaire - playwright, poet, philosopher, and one of the most feted figures in Europe - wasforced into exile by King Louis XV, where he would remain for the last 25 years of his life. These years heralded a startling new beginning for this remarkable character. Voltaire carved out a new and vibrant world in isolation, becoming a successful entrepreneur, writing his masterpiece Candide, and lavishing upon those around him the finer things in life. And it was as a figure cast out by the establishment that Voltaire began to develop his astonishingly modern ideas of human rights and social equality, borne out in his campaigns against a series of miscarriages of justice. In Voltaire In Exile, Ian Davidson has recreated this brilliant period in the life of one of the giant figures of th... (Lees verder)e Enlightenment. And by painstakingly translating the rich correspondence between Voltaire and his family, members of the Court at Versailles and the French intellectual elite, Davidson allows us to discover Voltaire the artist, the campaigner, the aesthete, the lover, the humorist. The result is a wonderfully vivid portrait of this extraordinarily funny, iconoclastic, complex and above all ferociously intelligent individual: 'the unique man of the century' (Diderot).
Pagina's
342
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 7,50

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