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Libros de Voltaire

  • Diccionario Filosofico, Volume 4

    • This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor...
    25,12€ 23,86€
  • The Dramatic Works Of Mr. De Voltaire V2

    • This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain
    34,53€ 32,80€
  • Socrates

    • Socrates is a play in three acts about Socrates and the events of his trial and eventual death. Satirical in nature it takes aim at government authority and organized religion. Voltaire’s contempt for government and religion come through...
    26,89€ 25,55€
  • Brutus

    • This tragedy was produced in 1730. It marks Voltaire’s spirit of daring in treating a subject from which Shakespeare shrank as, perhaps, too painful for representation. When revived during the Revolution it was enthusiastically applauded...
    26,89€ 25,55€
  • Olympia

    • Yet it is too soon. When I possess the crown, your faithful eyes Shall be the witnesses of all my deeds. Stay in this porch, the priestesses to-day Present Olympia to the powers divine: This day in secret she must expiate, Sins which are even to herself...
    26,89€ 25,55€
  • Pandora

    • Fate would make us wretched here, But hope shall dry up every tear; In sorrow he shall give us rest, And make us even in anguish blest: Love shall preserve us from the paths of vice, And strew his flowers around the precipice.Wilder Publications is a gree...
    26,89€ 25,55€
  • Merope

    • Mérope produced in 1743, is the greatest of Voltaires tragedies and a perfect literary performance. Frederick the Great amused himself by turning it into the libretto of an opera. Its success was great and the author was called before the curtain,...
    26,89€ 25,55€
  • Semiramis

    • Her eyes are sunk in darkness: help the king And guard his life. Learn from her sad example, That heaven is witness to our secret crimes: The higher is the criminal, remember, The gods inflict the greater punishment; Kings, tremble on your thrones, and...
    26,89€ 25,55€
  • Zadig

    • Zadig is a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. Voltaire did not attempt historical accuracy with this book. Many of the problems Zadig faces are thinly disguised references to social and political problems of Voltaire’s own day. Zadig is...
    22,56€ 21,43€
  • Catiline

    • In his preface to this play Voltaire says: "The learned will not here meet with a faithful narrative of Catilines conspiracy: a tragedy, they very well know, is not a history, but they will see a true picture of the manners of those times: all that...
    23,99€ 22,79€
  • Alzire

    • 40 páginas
    • Alzire first appeared on the stage in 1736 to great acclaim and success. Alzire is set Lima, Peru, at the time of the Spanish conquest. Don Gusman, a Spanish grandee, has just succeeded his father, Don Alvarez, in the Governorship of Peru. The rule of...
    22,56€ 21,43€
  • Nanine

    • This Comedy is called in the French Nanine, ou le Préjugé Vaincu (Nanine, or Prejudice Overcome). It is written, as we are told in the title-page, in verses of ten syllables. The absurdity of comedies in rhyme I have already remarked. The...
    26,89€ 25,55€
  • Candide

    • Candide, a pampered nobleman, is suddenly thrust out of his sheltered life into a cold uncaring world that does not care about his gentle upbringing. Candide witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world and must depend on his wits and quick acti...
    26,89€ 25,55€
  • Mahomet

    • This powerful work was read by Voltaire to Frederick of Prussia in 1740, to the king’s great delight. The play was withdrawn after the fourth representation, under pressure of Church authorities who professed to see in it a bloody satire...
    26,89€ 25,55€
  • Mariamne

    • It is enough: the power of Salome, By all acknowledged, and by all obeyed, On its firm basis stands immovable: I fled to Azor, with the lightning’s speed, Even from Samaria’s plain to Jordan’s spring,...
    26,89€ 25,55€
  • The Orphan Of China

    • The Chinese tragedy, which they call "The Orphan," was taken out of an immense collection of the theatrical performances of that nation, which has cultivated this art for about three thousand years before it was invented by the Greeks, the art...
    26,89€ 25,55€
  • Amelia

    • 42 páginas
    • This tragedy is founded on historical truth. A duke of Brittany, in the year 1387, commanded the lord of Bavalan to assassinate the constable of Clisson: Bavalan, the day after, told the duke it was done: the duke becoming sensible of the horror of his...
    26,89€ 25,55€
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  • Treatise On Toleration

    • 208 páginas
    • In 1762 Jean Calas, a merchant from Toulouse, was executed after being falsely accused of killing his son. As it became clear that Calas was in fact persecuted for being a Protestant, Voltaire began a campaign to get his sentence overturnedâ€&#...
    14,51€ 13,78€
  • Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

    • The Dictionnaire philosophique (Philosophical Dictionary) is an encyclopedic dictionary published..
    7,71€ 7,32€

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