 | Candide and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) by Voltaire
Buy used from: £0.01 Your French prof insists you read it: to get all the jokes you need to know about his political exile, social ambition, enemies and loves. A must but often two-dimensional without some background
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 | A Visit from Voltaire: A Comic Novel by Dinah Lee Küng
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 A Orange Prize longlisted comedy in which Voltaire returns, and tries to join the 21st century with a website, L'infame.org. Lots of fun...
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 | The Portable Voltaire (The Viking portable library) by Voltaire
Buy used from: £2.47 All you need to quote the Enlightened One, with excellent biographic introduction
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 | Passionate Minds: The Great Enlightenment Love Affair by David Bodanis
Buy used from: £0.38 Wonderful narrative plumbing Emilie's talents/viewpoint
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 | Letters on England (Classics) by Voltaire
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.41 The young Voltaire, ambitious and polemic, and determined to make a point on everything from Quaker free thought to smallpox shots to the French dullards back home
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 | The Great Philosophers:Voltaire by John Gray
Buy used from: £0.02 In 50 pgs, why is Voltaire a Philosophe, when it's so hard to describe his philosophy? What did he share with Christianity--that trust in a single Good,-- when he condemned the faith as nonsense?
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 | Madame De Pompadour by Nancy Mitford
Buy used from: £2.00 When she wasn't trying to keep Louis XV hooked, Madame de Pompadour sponsored Voltaire as court historiographer, but as usual, he blew it by making mischief
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 | Madame du Deffand and her World by Benedetta Craveri
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £4.49 In exile, V. needed gossip, and du Deffand kept him fed! Having lived a wild youth, she got blind, cranky and silly over Walpole. Wallow in the salons of Paris...
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 | Voltaire in Exile by Ian Davidson
Buy used from: £3.22 An excellent retelling of the older V.'s belated evolution into the famed humanitarian of Ferney
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 | Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford
Buy used from: £6.53 The entertaining Summer Read, about the middle years, and life in his bedroom with the volatile and horny Emilie
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 | Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France by Christine Pevitt Algrant
Buy used from: £0.48 With his buddy Richelieu, V. put her in the King's bed, but her mentoring let him down
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 | Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser
Buy new: £21.25 / Used from: £2.00 Voltaire wrote a history of Louis XIV, but as that's out of print....Fraser will do
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