Voltaire In Exile: The Last Years, 1753-78
by Ian Davidson
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0802117910
- ISBN 13
- 9780802117915
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NY: Grove Press, 2005. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1753, Voltaire — playwright, poet, philosopher, and one of the most fêted figures in Europe — was forced by Louis XV into exile, where he remained for the last twenty-five years of his life. These years heralded a startling new beginning for this remarkable man. Voltaire carved out a new and vibrant world in his isolation, becoming a successful entrepreneur and writing his masterpiece Candide. In Voltaire in Exile, Ian Davidson re-creates this period in the life of one of the giants of the Enlightenment. By painstakingly translating the rich correspondence between Voltaire and his family, members of the Court at Versailles, and the French intellectual elite, Davidson allows us to discover Voltaire the artist, the campaigner, the aesthete, the lover, the humorist. The result is a wonderfully vivid portrait of this extraordinarily funny, iconoclastic, complex, and, above all, ferociously intelligent individual. Clean copy. Record # 378946
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- Title
- Voltaire In Exile: The Last Years, 1753-78
- Author
- Ian Davidson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st US
- ISBN 10
- 0802117910
- ISBN 13
- 9780802117915
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2005
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