The Portable Voltaire (Portable Library) by Voltaire (EPUB)

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Includes Part One of Candide; three stories; selections from The Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake, and other works; and thirty-five letters.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author François-Marie Arouet, writing under the pseudonym Voltaire, 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.By 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 Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais (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 “Zadig” (1747) and “Candide” (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.

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⭐Does not include the Henriade, but otherwise good selection with Candide, etc. in good translation. One of the 100 books any educated person must read.

⭐I am not qualified to critique Voltaire. He is an amazing man, and much of his writing parallels DeSade, especially about religion and virtue. His tool is exaggeration. You’ll love it.

⭐(****) for the presentation but (**) for the contents.If you love Voltaire then this is an excellent volume gathering together many of the highlights of his writing.One can see why the major work in this volume “Candide” was a stunner in its time but as an entertainment for today it is woefully inadequate.Voltaire makes his point about the “Best of all Possible Worlds” early on but then bores us silly with an idiotic plot about Candide’s journey in which characters disappear, reappear, die, come back to life, etc. The book is “oh-so-clever but we don’t feel that Candide has made any kind of personal journey by the end.I bought this volume because I am a great admirer of Voltaire’s ideas but like many of the “great works” the IDEAS are compelling but wading through the actual source material is heavy-going indeed.”Candide” was turned into a opera by Leonard Bernstein in the 1950s who identified with Voltaire’s humanist philosophy in reaction to the paranoia of the McCarthy era. This opera was a failure – not due to the music which is often magnificent – but due to the silly plot. Trying to turn this into an opera was ill-conceived from the start.Judging from the other (generally glowing) reviews of “Candide” I know I am going to be vilified but I think people need to be warned that they may be in for disappointment.

⭐I don’t know what to make of him. A thinker, a writer and a fanatic, Voltaire seems to have been a loose cannon who criticized everything and offended everyone, yet became popular for his views and immortal-ized during his time – during the mid-1700’s. His philosophy on topics from adultery to tyranny, his satires Candide and Zadig, and his letters to Frederick the Great, along with other writings, were included. I don’t know how much editing had been done to cram so much into one small book but I didn’t enjoy it. Disappointing.

⭐Well put together in chronological order of his great writings

⭐good book

⭐This book has a wonderful collection of Voltaire’s writings – all the necessary stuff, well-organized, and the book is nicely printed and bound. Good font, nice paper.You can open it virtually anywhere to find wondrous writing to fill ten minutes or ten hours, as the case dictates.I’m about to order another, since a borrower seems to have forgotten its rightful home!

⭐If you’re into Votaire, you’ll want this book. If you’re not…. you should be. Voltaire offers something for everyone. Short, powerful reads filled with his wisdom. I like that he was not so full of himself as to not have a sense of humor and be human.

⭐Excellent service.

⭐A very interesting creative genius . Fascinating reading . He;s a man’s man , someone who has well thought out ideas for the knowledge available in his time . What is particularly interesting is the similarity between the catholic Inquisition and its barbarity and that of the the Muslin terrorists today , along with his comments of religious fanaticism . He lived his beliefs and I found him to be a person with whom it would have been a great experience to spend some time with over a beer !

⭐L’introduction de l’éditeur, rédigée par Ben Ray Redman, est très complète, mais si succincte et délicieuse qu’elle constitue à elle seule une raison suffisante pour ajouter Le Voltaire portable à votre bibliothèque.

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