A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical Dictionary is a major work of the European Enlightenment. It consists of a series of short essays, arranged alphabetically, whose unifying thread is an attack on religious and political intolerance. Highly entertaining, its concern with intolerance and its consequences is still relevant today.-
The Qur'an
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
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The Mabinogion
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Paradise Lost
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Great Expectations
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare
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Selected Stories
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will: The Oxford Shakespeare
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Four Major Plays
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Mrs Dalloway
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The Castle of Otranto
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The Library of Greek Mythology
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Hamlet: The Oxford Shakespeare
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Far from the Madding Crowd
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Persuasion
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Pamela
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On the Origin of Species
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales
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The Odyssey
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The Confessions
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
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The Divine Comedy
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
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Little Women
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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Metamorphoses
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The Custom of the Country
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Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
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Jane Eyre
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The Monk
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Evelina
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To the Lighthouse
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Gulliver's Travels
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The Bible: Authorized King James Version
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Revelations of Divine Love
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Heart of Darkness and Other Tales
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Othello: The Oxford Shakespeare
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Frankenstein
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Middlemarch
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Theogony and Works and Days
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Pride and Prejudice
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Robinson Crusoe
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Republic
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The Histories
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Madame Bovary
a marvellously Swiftian look at the bleakness of existence* Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian *
In John Fletcher's wonderfully luminous translation, the Dictionnaire philosophique portatif is like a breath of fresh air... Nicholas Cronk's discreet, helpful introduction and notes direct us to Voltaire's main concern: religion. * David Coward, Times Literary Supplement *
In John Fletcher's wonderfully luminous translation, the Dictionnaire philosophique portatif is like a breath of fresh air... Nicholas Cronk's discreet, helpful introduction and notes direct us to Voltaire's main concern: religion. * David Coward, Times Literary Supplement *
John Fletcher was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia from 1969 to 1998. His other translations include The Georgics by Claude Simon (Calder, 1989) and The Red Cross and the Holocaust by Jean-Claude Favez (CUP, 1999).
Nicholas Cronk is the General Editor of the Complete Works of Voltaire published by the Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire (CUP, 2009). For Oxford World's Classics he has introduced and annotated Cyrano de Bergerac , Diderot's Rameau's Nephew and First Satire, and Voltaire's Letters concerning the English Nation.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199553631 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199553637 |
| Title | A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary |
| Author | Voltaire |
| Series | Oxford World's Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2011-08-11 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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