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Voltaire's Candide or the Optimist and Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia
ISBN: 9781103098613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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Dipus
ISBN: 9781617202605 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. OEdipus was written when Voltaire was but nineteen years of age. It was played for the first time in 1718, and ran for forty-five nights. Du Fresne, a celebrated actor, and of the same age as the author, played the part of OEdipus; and Madame Desmarets, a famous actress, did Jocaste, and soon after quitted the stage. In this edition, the part of Philoctetes is restored, and stands exactly as it was in the first representation. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on...
OEdipus was written when Voltaire was but nineteen years of age. It was played for the first time in 1718, and ran for forty-five nights. Du Fresne, a...
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Mahomet
ISBN: 9781617202582 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This powerful work was read by Voltaire to Frederick of Prussia in 1740, to the king's great delight. The play was withdrawn after the fourth representation, under pressure of Church authorities who professed to see in it a bloody satire against the Christian religion. Almost three hundred years later critics are still unclear if this play is a rebuke of Islam or of Christianity or, perhaps, both. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.
This powerful work was read by Voltaire to Frederick of Prussia in 1740, to the king's great delight. The play was withdrawn after the fourth represen...
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Alzire
ISBN: 9781617202445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Alzire first appeared on the stage in 1736 to great acclaim and success. Alzire is set Lima, Peru, at the time of the Spanish conquest. Don Gusman, a Spanish grandee, has just succeeded his father, Don Alvarez, in the Governorship of Peru. The rule of Don Alvarez had been beneficent and just; he had spent his life in endeavoring to soften the cruelty of his countrymen; and his only remaining wish was to see his son carry on the work which he had begun. Unfortunately, however, Don Gusman's temperament was the very opposite of his father's; he was tyrannical, harsh, headstrong, and bigoted. It...
Alzire first appeared on the stage in 1736 to great acclaim and success. Alzire is set Lima, Peru, at the time of the Spanish conquest. Don Gusman, a ...
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Candide
ISBN: 9781617202421 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Candide, a pampered nobleman, is suddenly thrust out of his sheltered life into a cold uncaring world that does not care about his gentle upbringing. Candide witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world and must depend on his wits and quick actions to survive. Candide is sarcastic, erratic, fantastical, and fast-moving. This wonderful novel parodies many adventure and romance cliches Voltaire ridicules religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies, and philosophers through allegory. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This...
Candide, a pampered nobleman, is suddenly thrust out of his sheltered life into a cold uncaring world that does not care about his gentle upbringing. ...
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The Princess of Babylon by Voltaire, Fiction, Classics, Literary
ISBN: 9781463800635 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. But what was more admirable in Babylon, and eclipsed everything else, was the only daughter of the king, named Formosanta. It was from her pictures and statues, that in succeeding times Praxiteles sculptured his Aphrodita, and the Venus of Medicis. Heavens what a difference between the original and the copies King Belus was prouder of his daughter than of his kingdom. She was eighteen years old. It was necessary she should have a husband worthy of her; but where was he to be found? An ancient oracle had ordained, that Formosanta could not belong to any but him who could bend the bow of... But what was more admirable in Babylon, and eclipsed everything else, was the only daughter of the king, named Formosanta. It was from her pictures... |
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The Princess of Babylon by Voltaire, Fiction, Classics, Literary
ISBN: 9781463899554 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The aged Belus, king of Babylon, thought himself the first man upon earth. His palace and his park, extended between the Euphrates and the Tigris. His vast house, three thousand feet in front, almost reached the clouds. The platform was surrounded with a balustrade of white marble, fifty feet high. But what was more admirable in Babylon, and eclipsed everything else, was the only daughter of the king, named Formosanta. It was from her pictures and statues, that in succeeding times Praxiteles sculptured his Aphrodita, and the Venus of Medicis. Heavens what a difference between the... The aged Belus, king of Babylon, thought himself the first man upon earth. His palace and his park, extended between the Euphrates and the Tigris. ... |
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Zadig
ISBN: 9781617202438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Zadig is a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. Voltaire did not attempt historical accuracy with this book. Many of the problems Zadig faces are thinly disguised references to social and political problems of Voltaire's own day. Zadig is philosophical in nature, and presents human life as being beyond human control. It is a story of religious and metaphysical orthodoxy, both of which Voltaire challenges with his presentation of the moral revolution taking place in Zadig himself. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep...
Zadig is a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. Voltaire did not attempt historical accuracy with this book. Many of the problems Zadig faces are thinly ...
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Micromegas by Voltaire, Fiction, Classics, Literary
ISBN: 9781463899547 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN MICROMEGAS AND THE INHABITANT OF SATURN His excellency having laid himself down, and the secretary approached his nose: "It must be confessed," said Micromegas, "that nature is full of variety." "Yes," replied the Saturnian, "nature is like a parterre, whose flowers --" "Pshaw " cried the other, "a truce with your parterres." "It is," resumed the secretary, "like an assembly of fair and brown women, whose dresses--" "What a plague have I to do with your brunettes?" said our traveler. "Then it is like a gallery of pictures, the strokes of which--" "Not at... THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN MICROMEGAS AND THE INHABITANT OF SATURN His excellency having laid himself down, and the secretary approached his ... |
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Catiline
ISBN: 9781617202476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his preface to this play Voltaire says: "The learned will not here meet with a faithful narrative of Catiline's conspiracy: a tragedy, they very well know, is not a history, but they will see a true picture of the manners of those times: all that Cicero, Catiline, Cato and Caesar do in this piece is not true, but their genius and character are faithfully represented: if we do not there discover the eloquence of Cicero, we shall at least find displayed all that courage and virtue which he showed in the hour of danger. In Catiline is described that contrast of fierceness and dissimulation...
In his preface to this play Voltaire says: "The learned will not here meet with a faithful narrative of Catiline's conspiracy: a tragedy, they very we...
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The Scotch Woman
ISBN: 9781617202506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. I don't belong to the house, sir; but I spend most of my time in the coffee-room; write news, politics, and so forth, and am always ready to do an honest gentleman service. If you have any friend you want to have praised, or any enemy to be abused; any author you want to protect or to decry; 'tis but one guinea per paragraph: if you are desirous of cultivating any acquaintance for profit or pleasure, sir, I am your man. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the...
I don't belong to the house, sir; but I spend most of my time in the coffee-room; write news, politics, and so forth, and am always ready to do an hon...
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Brutus
ISBN: 9781617202575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This tragedy was produced in 1730. It marks Voltaire's spirit of daring in treating a subject from which Shakespeare shrank as, perhaps, too painful for representation. When revived during the Revolution it was enthusiastically applauded. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.
This tragedy was produced in 1730. It marks Voltaire's spirit of daring in treating a subject from which Shakespeare shrank as, perhaps, too painful f...
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Seventeen Plays by Voltaire
ISBN: 9781617202629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Included in this omnibus edition are seventeen of Voltaire's most important plays including Brutus, Socrates, Alzire, Orestes, Catiline, Semiramis, Pandora, The Scotch Woman, Nanine, The Prude, Merope, Olympia, The Orphan of China, Mahomet, Amelia, OEdipus, and Mariamne. During his life time Voltaire was far and away the most successful French playwright, these are the plays that cemented his popularity and made him a household name during his own lifetime. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while...
Included in this omnibus edition are seventeen of Voltaire's most important plays including Brutus, Socrates, Alzire, Orestes, Catiline, Semiramis, Pa...
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The Prude
ISBN: 9781617202520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This comedy is partly imitated from an English piece, called the Plain Dealer. It does not suit very well for the French stage; the manners are too rough and bold, though much less so than in the original. The English seem to take too much liberty, and the French too little. -Voltaire Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.
This comedy is partly imitated from an English piece, called the Plain Dealer. It does not suit very well for the French stage; the manners are too ro...
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Merope
ISBN: 9781617202544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Merope produced in 1743, is the greatest of Voltaire's tragedies and a perfect literary performance. Frederick the Great amused himself by turning it into the libretto of an opera. Its success was great and the author was called before the curtain, an honor until then unknown in France. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment."
Merope produced in 1743, is the greatest of Voltaire's tragedies and a perfect literary performance. Frederick the Great amused himself by turning it ...
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Socrates
ISBN: 9781617202452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Socrates is a play in three acts about Socrates and the events of his trial and eventual death. Satirical in nature it takes aim at government authority and organized religion. Voltaire's contempt for government and religion come through clearly in this play. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.
Socrates is a play in three acts about Socrates and the events of his trial and eventual death. Satirical in nature it takes aim at government authori...
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Semiramis
ISBN: 9781617202483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Her eyes are sunk in darkness: help the king And guard his life. Learn from her sad example, That heaven is witness to our secret crimes: The higher is the criminal, remember, The gods inflict the greater punishment; Kings, tremble on your thrones, and fear their justice. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.
Her eyes are sunk in darkness: help the king And guard his life. Learn from her sad example, That heaven is witness to our secret crimes: The higher i...
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Nanine
ISBN: 9781617202513 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "This Comedy is called in the French Nanine, ou le Prejuge Vaincu (Nanine, or Prejudice Overcome). It is written, as we are told in the title-page, in verses of ten syllables. The absurdity of comedies in rhyme I have already remarked. The original begins thus: Il faut parler, il faut, Monsieur le Comte, Vous expliquer nettement sur mon Compte. The reader cannot but observe, what villainous rhymes Comte and Compte are, and perhaps will more readily forgive my reducing this comedy into plain prose. It was produced in 1749."-Voltaire Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books...
"This Comedy is called in the French Nanine, ou le Prejuge Vaincu (Nanine, or Prejudice Overcome). It is written, as we are told in the title-page, in...
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Orestes
ISBN: 9781617202469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived...
Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of ...
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Olympia
ISBN: 9781617202551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Yet it is too soon. When I possess the crown, your faithful eyes Shall be the witnesses of all my deeds. Stay in this porch, the priestesses to-day Present Olympia to the powers divine: This day in secret she must expiate, Sins which are even to herself unknown. This day a better life I shall begin. O dear Olympia, may you never know The heinous crime that's hardly yet effaced, To whom your birth you owe, what blood I've shed. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on...
Yet it is too soon. When I possess the crown, your faithful eyes Shall be the witnesses of all my deeds. Stay in this porch, the priestesses to-day Pr...
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