Description: Yesterday's Muse, Inc. presents ... Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom ISBN:1582346305 Author:Pearson, Roger Publisher:Bloomsbury Release Date:2005 Seller Category:-- Qty Available:1 Condition:Collectible: Good Sku: 2344638 Notes: First American edition. Minor ink mark on rear jacket panel. Remainder mark, minor ink marginalia. 2005 Hard Cover. xxxii, 447 pp. Voltaire Almighty provides a lively look at the life and thought of one of the major forces behind European Enlightenment. A rebel from start to finish (1694-1778), Voltaire was an ailing and unwanted bastard child who refused to die; and when he did consent to expire some eighty-four years later, he secured a Christian burial despite a bishop's ban. During much of his life Voltaire was the toast of society for his plays and verse, but his barbed wit and commitment to human reason got him into trouble. Jailed twice and eventually banished by the king, he was an outspoken critic of religious intolerance and persecution. His personal life was as colorful as his intellectual life. Of independent means and mind, Voltaire never married, but he had long-term affairs with two women: Emilie, who died after giving birth to the child of another lover, and his niece, Marie-Louise, with whom he spent the last twenty-five years of his life. The consummate outsider; a dissenter who craved acceptance while flamboyantly disdaining it; author of countless stories, poems, books, plays, treatises, and tracts as well as some twenty thousand letters to his friends: Voltaire lived a long, active life that makes for engaging and entertaining reading. Don't forget to check out other great deals in our eBay Store!!
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Book Title: Voltaire Almighty : Alife in Pursuit of Freedom
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Item Height: 1.6 in
Topic: European / French, Historical
Publication Year: 2005
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 29.2 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Roger Pearson
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover