{"product_id":"the-portable-voltaire-isbn-9780140150414","title":"The Portable Voltaire","description":"Includes Part One of \u003ci\u003eCandide\u003c\/i\u003e; three stories; selections from \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake\u003c\/i\u003e, and other works; and thirty-five letters.Editor's Introduction\u003cbr\u003eSome Dates in the Life of Voltaire\u003cbr\u003eA Brief Biography of Works by Voltaire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophical Dictionary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelections\u003cbr\u003eMiscellany\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCandide\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eZadig\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMicromegas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStory of a Good Brahmin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLetters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo Frederick the Great\u003cbr\u003eMiscellaneous Letters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelections from \u003ci\u003eThe English Letters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssay on the Manners and Spirit of Nations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecapitulation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Lisbon Earthquake\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor's Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lisbon Earthquake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrançois-Marie Arouet\u003c\/b\u003e, writing under the pseudonym \u003cb\u003eVoltaire\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003cp\u003eBy 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 \u003cb\u003eLettres philosophiques sur les Anglais\u003c\/b\u003e (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 “\u003cb\u003eZadig\u003c\/b\u003e” (1747) and “\u003cb\u003eCandide\u003c\/b\u003e” (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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303876251877,"sku":"NP9780140150414","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140150414.jpg?v=1767741015","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-portable-voltaire-isbn-9780140150414","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}