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The Portable Voltaire (The Viking Portable Library)
 
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The Portable Voltaire (The Viking Portable Library) (Paperback)
by Voltaire (Author), Ben Ray Redman (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Ltd; Expanded ed edition (Jan 1977)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140150412
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140150414
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 416,951 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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A representative selection from Voltaire's work which includes excerpts from his plays, philosophical essays, poetry, and novels.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Voltaire is God!!, 26 April 1999
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I had heard of Voltaire being one of the greatest critics, satirists and philosophers of the Age of Reason; Now I see why. He tore apart many of the myths religions used to justify promoting *their* religion as the right one while bashing those others. He points out that a religion claiming to be free of superstitions and claiming to be against the same is hypocritical if it still sees Satan as effecting in "bad" behavior and similar un-Christian things. He points out that there is no such thing as going against one's will; If one does, one is simply adhering to the demands of another will, a will to do something different, and hence going against will when given choice is impossible. Read this book; It will inspire, educate and enlighten you!
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars great source for my comic novel,, 4 Jun 2003
Voltaire has something to teach us all on practically every subject I could think of in my literary comedy, "A Visit From Voltaire," (amazon.co.uk) and this book was one of the most basic texts I could find in English. It's helpful to have already read a biography of Voltaire, or even a light-hearted romp through his middle-aged passion for the Marquise du Chatelet in "Voltaire in Love," in order to put all these riches of Voltaire's thoughts and writings into some kind of political context. A delightfully condensed resource with a reliab