Voltaire Almighty

Name: Voltaire Almighty | A Life in Pursuit of Freedom
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A Life in Pursuit of Freedom

Roger Pearson(Autor*in)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Erschienen am 15. Dezember 2010

480 Seiten

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Cover
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
CURTAIN RISE
BEGINNINGS (1694-1733): FROM CRADLE TO CHAMPAGNE
1 Of Uncertain Birth (1694-1704)
How Zozo came to live in a beautiful courtyard, and how he was kicked out of the same
2 Of Priests and Poets (1704-1711)
What became of young Arouet among the Jesuits
3 White Nights and Early Nights (1711-1718)
How François Jell in love and out of favour
4 Back to the Bastille (1718-1726)
Wherein Arouet becomes Voltaire and is beaten up all the same
5 England, 'Land of Liberty' (1726-1728)
How an epic poet arrived in sunshine and left under a cloud
6 From Bonanza to Bombshell (1728-1733)
In which our hero wins the lottery and lights a fuse
MIDDLES (1733-1749): MY WIFE ÉMILIE
7 Sex in Blue Stockings (1733-1735)
How the lawyers had themselves a lovely holocaust, and how two cuckolds turned a blind eye
8 A Marriage of True Minds (1735-1738)
How Adam and Eve feasted on the Free of Knowledge
9 Worms in the Apple (1736-1739)
In which a great man rides high and stoops low
10 Court Proceedings: Berlin or Pâris? (1739-1745)
In which a bourgeois gentleman becomes a Gentleman in Ordinary
11 The Way of the World (1745-1748)
The courtier courts disaster and his niece
12 Death of a Lover (1748-1749)
What became of Émilie and her soul (if she had one)
LATE MIDDLES (1749-1768): A KINGDOM OF ONES OWN
13 Hello and Goodbye to Berlin (1749-1753)
Wherein a royal chamberlain is squeezed like an orange
14 A Niece for a Wife, or House-hunting in the 1750s (1753-1755)
How a man may be shipwrecked in Strasbourg and find heaven in Switzerland
15 From Earthquake to Book Launch: Candide (1755-1759)
How an optimist wrote a masterpiece and bought a kingdom
16 The Vineyard of Truth (1759-1763)
In which our hero ploughs a straight furrow and roots out infamy
17 Jousting with Injustice: Calas and Rousseau (1761-1765)
Wherein one man proclaims his innocence and another confesses
18 D for Dictionary, D for Danger (1764-1768)
On the convenience and inconvenience of pocket-books
ENDINGS (1768-1778): FROM GARDEN TO GRAVE
19 April Foolery (1768-1769)
Wherein a deist continues the struggle and prepares the ground
20 The Watchmakers (1769-1773)
Of silkworms and high priests, of statues and serpents
21 A Fight to the Finish (1773-1776)
Wherein the mind proves superior to matter
22 The Last Act (1776-1778)
Our hero is bled, absolved, and crowned
23 Out Like a Candle (March-May 1778)
Wherein we learn how to bury an infidel and to keep the flame burning
24 Conclusion
The Author considers his Subject
CURTAIN CALL
Notes
Dramatis Personae
France, Europe and America 1643-1799
Select Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
A Note on the Author
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