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- catalog abstract ""The Portable Voltaire" is an excellent compendium of the major works of the man who became the most famous iconoclast of the French Enlightenment. One of the attractions of this particular volume is the introduction by Ben Ray Redman, who delivers with witty, flowing prose an extremely interesting short biography and a summary of the man's philosophy. Normally I don't bother to mention a book's introduction in a review, but Redman's is so good I make a notable exception. Voltaire was a man of contrasts. He was sickly and feeble but miraculously managed to extend his lifespan to eighty-four years, travel abroad, and survive in prison; he was made wealthy by various benefactors and seemed generally happy but could be very cynical and antagonistic in his writing; and most notoriously, he was a deist whose hatred of Christianity could make him appear to be an atheist. Most of what he hated about Christianity was the clergy--their hypocrisy, their adherence to practices he found absurd, their conceit that everything in the universe is made exclusively for man's consumption and amusement--and the superstition and fanaticism exhibited by the more extreme practitioners of the faith. -- from http://www.amazon.com (June 16, 2014).".
- catalog alternative "Works. Selections. English. 1949".
- catalog contributor b1801087.
- catalog contributor b1801088.
- catalog contributor b1801089.
- catalog created "1949.".
- catalog date "1949".
- catalog date "1949.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1949.".
- catalog description ""The Portable Voltaire" is an excellent compendium of the major works of the man who became the most famous iconoclast of the French Enlightenment. One of the attractions of this particular volume is the introduction by Ben Ray Redman, who delivers with witty, flowing prose an extremely interesting short biography and a summary of the man's philosophy. Normally I don't bother to mention a book's introduction in a review, but Redman's is so good I make a notable exception. Voltaire was a man of contrasts. He was sickly and feeble but miraculously managed to extend his lifespan to eighty-four years, travel abroad, and survive in prison; he was made wealthy by various benefactors and seemed generally happy but could be very cynical and antagonistic in his writing; and most notoriously, he was a deist whose hatred of Christianity could make him appear to be an atheist. Most of what he hated about Christianity was the clergy--their hypocrisy, their adherence to practices he found absurd, their conceit that everything in the universe is made exclusively for man's consumption and amusement--and the superstition and fanaticism exhibited by the more extreme practitioners of the faith. -- from http://www.amazon.com (June 16, 2014).".
- catalog description "Philosophical dictionary. Candide. Zadig. Micromegas. Story of a good Brahmin. Letters. Selections from the English letters. Essay on the manners and spirit of nations. Lisbon earthquake.".
- catalog extent "v, 569 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Portable Voltaire.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Portable Voltaire.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Viking portable library [41]".
- catalog isPartOf "Viking portable library".
- catalog issued "1949".
- catalog issued "1949.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, Viking Press,".
- catalog relation "Portable Voltaire.".
- catalog subject "840.81".
- catalog subject "PQ2075 1949".
- catalog subject "Voltaire, 1694-1778 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Voltaire, 1694-1778 Translations into English.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Philosophical dictionary. Candide. Zadig. Micromegas. Story of a good Brahmin. Letters. Selections from the English letters. Essay on the manners and spirit of nations. Lisbon earthquake.".
- catalog title "The portable Voltaire, ed., and with an introd., by Ben Ray Redman.".
- catalog title "Works. Selections. English. 1949".
- catalog type "text".