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Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture. Perceiving them as a veiled attack against the ancien regime, however, the French government ordered the letters... Read Full Overview

In his Philosophical Letters, Voltaire provides a pungent and often satirical assessment of the religion, politics, science, and arts of the England he observed during his nearly three-year exile. In addition to the Letters, this edition provides a translation of Voltaire's Proposal... Read Full Overview

Letters on England is a classic English travel memoir by the great French philosopher, Voltaire. Letters on the English (or Letters Concerning the English Nation; French: Lettres philosophiques) is a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in England... Read Full Overview

Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. His controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and literature have placed the Letters among the great Augustan satires.
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Letters on the English (or Letters Concerning the English Nation; French: Lettres philosophiques) is a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in England between 1726 and 1729 (though from 1707 the country was part of the Kingdom of Great Britain)... Read Full Overview

Letters on England is a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in England between 1726 and 1728.In some ways, the book can be compared with Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville, in how it flatteringly explains a nation to itself from the... Read Full Overview

Las Cartas filos ficas (probablemente esbozadas y pensadas durante su estancia en Inglaterra en 1727 y 1728) plantean, todav a con esp ritu juvenil, todos los temas contra los que combatir Voltaire durante su larga vida. La publicaci n en 1734 de la obra suscit un enorme esc... Read Full Overview

Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) was born into a wealthy Parisian family in 1694. His intellectual powers made him a justly influential figure in the Enlightenment, but he seemed to court controversy, twice lampooning the regent Philipe D'Orleans, which earned him first exile... Read Full Overview

Lettre philosophique, morale et litt raire de Voltaire aux fran ais; publi e par E. B. D. M. ...
Date de l' dition originale: 1818

Le pr sent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la litt rature Fran aise mise en place avec... Read Full Overview

En las Cartas filos ficas, Voltaire elogia la Inglaterra del siglo XVIII, en aspectos tanto religiosos como pol ticos e, incluso, filos ficos y human sticos. Un total de 25 cartas forman esta obra de la cual, la ltima parte est dedicada a criticar los pensamientos de Pascal,... Read Full Overview

Lettres philosophiques

Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. His controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and literature have placed the Letters among the great Augustan satires.
Voltaire wrote most of... Read Full Overview

""Letters on the English"" or ""Lettres Philosophiques"" is a collection of essays written by the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire in 1733. The book is composed of 24 letters, each written in the form of a letter to a friend or acquaintance in France. In these letters,... Read Full Overview

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