Voltaire and the Century of Light

ISBN: 9780691617602 出版年：2015 页码：456 Aldridge, Alfred Owen Princeton University Press

Taking an approach different from (hat of earlier biographers, a. Owen aldridge examines voltaire's literary and intellectual career chronologically, using the methods both of comparative literature and of the history of ideas. The resulting biography portrays a fascinating personality as well as a great writer and thinker. Voltaire is revealed not only through his correspondence, here extensively quoted, but through the statements others made about him in anecdotes, memoirs, and other contemporary documents.