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  • The Princess of Babylon by Voltaire, Fiction, Classics, Literary
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire
    But what was more admirable in Babylon, and eclipsed everything else, was the only daughter of the king, named Formosanta. It was from her pictures and statues, that in succeeding times Praxiteles sculptured his Aphrodita, and the Venus of Medicis. Heavens! what a difference between the original and the copies! King Belus was prouder of his daughter than of his kingdom. She was...
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    12,92 €

  • Seventeen Plays by Voltaire
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Francois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire
    Included in this omnibus edition are seventeen of Voltaire’s most important plays including Brutus, Socrates, Alzire, Orestes, Catiline, Sémiramis, Pandora, The Scotch Woman, Nanine, The Prude, Mérope, Olympia, The Orphan of China, Mahomet, Amelia, Œdipus, and Mariamne. During his life time Voltaire was far and away the most successful French playwright, these are the plays tha...
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    25,27 €

  • The Voltaire Anthology
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire / William F. Fleming / William FFleming
    Included in this omnibus edition are Candide, Zadig and seventeen of Voltaire’s most important plays including Brutus, Socrates, Alzire, Orestes, Catiline, Sémiramis, Pandora, The Scotch Woman, Nanine, The Prude, Mérope, Olympia, The Orphan of China, Mahomet, Amelia, Œdipus, and Mariamne. During his life time Voltaire was far and away the most successful French playwright, thes...
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    27,35 €

  • Amelia
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Francois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire
    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 crime, and apprehensive of the fatal consequences of it, abandoned himself to the most violent despair: Bavalan, after giving h...
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    12,23 €

  • Dipus
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Francois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire
    Œdipus was written when Voltaire was but nineteen years of age. It was played for the first time in 1718, and ran for forty-five nights. Du Frêsne, a celebrated actor, and of the same age as the author, played the part of Œdipus; and Madame Desmarêts, a famous actress, did Jocaste, and soon after quitted the stage. In this edition, the part of Philoctetes is restored, and stand...
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    12,26 €

  • Mariamne
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Francois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire
    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, And quick returned: my presence there indeed Was needful, to cut off the aspiring hopes Of Israel’s moody race: thy brother Herod, So long detained at Rome, was almost grown A str...
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    10,26 €

  • Olympia
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire / William F. Fleming / William FFleming
    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 unknown. This day a better life I shall begin. O! dear Olympia, may you never know The heinous crime that’s hardly yet effaced...
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    10,33 €

  • The Orphan of China
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Francois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire
    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 of making living portraits of the actions of men, establishing schools of morality, and teaching virtue in dialogue and representation. ...
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    10,30 €

  • Brutus
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire / William F. Fleming / William FFleming
    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.Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly...
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    12,29 €

  • Mahomet
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Francois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire
    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 against the Christian religion. Almost three hundred years later critics are still unclear if this play is a rebuke of Islam or of Christianit...
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    11,16 €

  • The Tatler
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire / William F. Fleming / William FFleming
    Don’t imagine, my dear, that, by what I’m going to say, I mean to exercise the authority of a mother, always ready as you know I am, to listen in my turn to your reasons when I think them good; my intention is not to lay my commands on you, but to give you my advice; it is my heart which speaks to you, and that experience I have had in the world makes me foresee evils which I w...
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    10,08 €

  • Merope
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire / William F. Fleming / William FFleming
    Mérope produced in 1743, is the greatest of Voltaire’s 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, an honor until then unknown in France.Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces...
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    11,29 €

  • The Scotch Woman
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Francois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire
    I don’t belong to the house, sir; but I spend most of my time in the coffee-room; write news, politics, and so forth, and am always ready to do an honest gentleman service. If you have any friend you want to have praised, or any enemy to be abused; any author you want to protect or to decry; ’tis but one guinea per paragraph: if you are desirous of cultivating any acquaintance ...
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    11,29 €

  • Nanine
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Francois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire
    '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 original begins thus: Il faut parler, il faut, Monsieur le Comte, Vous expliquer nettement sur mon Compte.The reader cannot but observe, wha...
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    11,13 €

  • The Prude
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire / William F. Fleming / William FFleming
    This comedy is partly imitated from an English piece, called the Plain Dealer. It does not suit very well for the French stage; the manners are too rough and bold, though much less so than in the original. The English seem to take too much liberty, and the French too little. -Voltaire Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces ...
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    11,45 €

  • Alzire
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire / William F. Fleming / William FFleming
    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 Don Alvarez had been beneficent and just; he had spent his life in endeavoring to soften the cruelty of his countrymen; and his ...
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    12,20 €

  • Pandora
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire / William F. Fleming / William FFleming
    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 green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing ou...
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    9,95 €

  • Socrates
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire / William F. Fleming / William FFleming
    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 clearly in this play.Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep pri...
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    12,71 €

  • Orestes
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Francois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire
    Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama:'We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporar...
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    11,16 €

  • Catiline
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Francois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire
    In his preface to this play Voltaire says: 'The learned will not here meet with a faithful narrative of Catiline’s 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 Cicero, Catiline, Cato and Cæsar do in this piece is not true, but their genius and character are faithfully represented: if we do...
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    12,23 €

  • Semiramis
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire / William F. Fleming / William FFleming
    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 fear their justice.Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and help...
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    11,13 €

  • Candide
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire
    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 actions to survive.Candide is sarcastic, erratic, fantastical, and fast-moving. This wonderful novel parodies many adventure and ...
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    8,50 €

  • Zadig
    Fran Ois-Marie Arouet / Voltaire
    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 philosophical in nature, and presents human life as being beyond human control. It is a story of religious and metaphysical orthodoxy, both of w...
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    9,03 €