Voltaire

Gebundenes Buch

Seventeen Plays by Voltaire

Beschreibung

Included in this omnibus edition are seventeen of Voltaire's most important plays including Brutus, Socrates, Alzire, Orestes, Catiline, Sémiramis, Pandora, The Scotch Woman, Nanine, The Prude, Mérope, Olympia, The Orphan of China, Mahomet, Amelia, ¿dipus, and Mariamne. During his life time Voltaire was far and away the most successful French playwright, these are the plays that cemented his popularity and made him a household name during his own lifetime.

Autor

François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church and Christianity as a whole and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma and the French institutions of his day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilder Publications
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1012g
• ISBN-13: 9781515430988
• ISBN-10: 1515430987
• Artikelnr.: 52962469