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Voltaire
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in Western intellectual history cast...
Voltaire
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in Western intellectual history burned as brilliantly — or as dangerously — as François-Marie Arouet, the man the world came...
Treatise on Toleration
One of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought In 1762 Jean Calas, a merchant from Toulouse, was executed after being falsely accused of killing his...
Voltaire
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Condition remarks: Condition: Fair to Good. No dust jacket. The book is open to the title page, which shows yellowing and tanning consistent with age. The boards appear worn at...
The Portable Voltaire
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in Western intellectual history cast as long a shadow as...
Candide And Other Romances
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most audacious and brilliantly satirical works ever written, Candide and Other Romances follows the relentlessly...
Candide: Or Optimism
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"All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this "optimism" concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found...
Candide, or Optimism
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A major new translation of Voltaire's fast-paced, globe-trotting satire - an irresistible holiday read. Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose...
Voltaire's Politics: The Poet As Realist
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when one of history's most brilliantly subversive minds turns its full satirical power upon the machinery...
Candide or The Optimist
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Author: VoltaireBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, London, 1948Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis narrative follows the journey of a naive young man as he experiences...
Candide
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodOne of the most wickedly brilliant satires ever written, Candide chronicles the misadventures of its relentlessly optimistic young...
Candide, or Optimism
A major new translation of Voltaire's fast-paced, globe-trotting satire - an irresistible holiday read. Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose...
Candide And Other Romances
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Author: VoltaireBinding: HardbackPublished: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd; Dodd, Mead and Company, 1929Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCandide is a satirical novella that chronicles the...
Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom
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Passionate Minds: The Great Scientific Affair
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Voltaire's Calligrapher
An elegant and atmospheric literary thriller that will delight fans of The Interpretation of Murder and The Shadow of the Wind Eighteenth century France: the Age of Enlightenment. Dalessius is...
The Histories Of Gargantua And Pantagruel
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Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew works in the Western literary canon match the anarchic brilliance and philosophical depth of François Rabelais's The Histories...
The Coming of Age of Francoise Cocteau
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Sent by her mother and stepfather to "Birchtree Villa," Francoise falls easy victim to the sensuous whims of the lithe, strong, severely beautiful teachers whose rampant passions, furiously unleashed in...
The Economics Of Taste (Three-Volume Set)
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Edition: reissued ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodCondition remarks: Minor marks and flecks on the boards. Few forces have shaped civilization...
Secondhand Alistair MacLean Bargain Book Box SP4094
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Secondhand Alistair MacLean Bargain Book Box SP4094 Twenty-four novels from the undisputed king of the action thriller. Alistair MacLean wrote some of the most tightly plotted, propulsive novels of the...