Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom

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Bloomsbury, 2006 - Biography & Autobiography - 447 pages
During much of his life Voltaire's plays and verse made him the toast of society, but his barbed wit and commitment to reason also got him into trouble. With tales of illegitimacy, prison, stardom, exile, love affairs and tireless battles against critics, Church and King, this is a biography of Voltaire.

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About the author (2006)

Roger Pearson is Professor of French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Queen's College. He has translated and edited Candide and Other Stories for Oxford World's Classics and is the author of The Fables of Reason: A Study of Voltaire's Contes Philosophiques. His other publications include books on Stendhal and Mallarme.

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