Voltaire

Voltaire

Voltaire was born in Paris on November 21st, 1694 and passed away at the age of 83 on May 30th, 1778.

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Below is a complete list of Voltaire books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The One-eyed Street Porter, Cosi-sancta
1715
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2
Micromégas
1738
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3
Zadig, or Destiny
1747
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4
The World as It Goes
1750
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5
Memnon
1750
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6
Bababec and the Fakirs
1750
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7
Timon
1755
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8
Plato's Dream
1756
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9
The Travels of Scarmentado
1756
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10
The Two Consoled Ones
1756
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11
8.2
Candide, or Optimism
1759
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12
Story of a Good Brahman
1759
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13
The City of Cashmere
1760
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14
The King of Boutan
1761
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15
An Indian Adventure
1764
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16
The White and the Black
1764
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17
Jeannot and Colin
1764
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18
The Blind Judges of Colors
1766
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19
The Princess of Babylon
1768
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20
The Man with Forty Crowns
1768
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21
The Letters of Amabed
1769
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22
The Huron, or Pupil of Nature
1771
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23
The White Bull
1772
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24
An Incident of Memory
1773
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25
The History of Jenni
1774
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26
The Travels of Reason
1774
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27
The Ears of Lord Chesterfield and Chaplain Goudman
1775
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List of Plays in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Oedipus
1717
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2
Artémire
1720
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3
Mariamne
1724
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4
Brutus
1730
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5
Éryphile
1732
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6
Zaïre
1732
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7
Alzire
1736
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8
Zulima
1740
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9
Mahomet
1741
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10
Mérope
1743
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11
Sémiramis
1748
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12
Nanine
1749
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13
The Orphan of China
1755
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14
Socrates
1759
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15
The Reasonable Wife
1759
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16
Tancrède
1760
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17
Don Pedro, King of Castille
1774
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18
Sophonisbe
1774
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19
Irène
1778
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20
Agathocle
1779
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List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Voltaire's Letters on the Quakers
1727
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2
History of Charles XII King of Sweden
1731
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3
Letters Concerning the English Nation
1733
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4
The Elements of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy
1738
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5
The Age of Louis XIV
1751
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6
The Age of Louis XV
1752
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7
Essay on Universal History, the Manners, and Spirit of Nations
1756
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8
History of the Russian Empire Under Peter the Great
1759
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9
The Calas Affair
1762
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10
Philosophical Dictionary
1764
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11
Philosophy of History
1765
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12
Questions sur les Miracles
1765
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13
The Sermon of the Fifty
1962
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14
God & Human Beings
2010
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List of Collections in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Zadig and Other Stories
1747
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2
Candide and Other Tales
1759
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3
Candide and Other Stories
1759
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4
Candide and Related Texts
1942
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5
Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories
1961
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List of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Plato: The Symposium (By: M.C. Howatson, Frisbee Sheffield)
-380
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2
Theaetetus/Sophist (By: Harold North Fowler, Francis Macdonald Cornford)
-370
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3
Nicomachean Ethics (By: Roger Crisp)
-350
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4
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (By: Roger Crisp)
-350
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5
Eudemian Ethics (By: Brad Inwood, Raphael Woolf)
-322
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6
On Moral Ends (By: Julia Annas, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Raphael Woolf)
-45
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7
Outlines of Scepticism (By: Jonathan Barnes, Julia Annas, Sextus Empiricus)
200
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8
On the Trinity (By: Augustine of Hippo, Gareth B. Matthews, Stephen McKenna)
416
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9
Cause, Principle and Unity and Essays on Magic (By: Giordano Bruno, Richard J. Blackwell, Alfonso Ingegno, Robert De Lucca)
1583
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10
Francis Bacon: The New Organon (By: Lisa Jardine, Francis Bacon, Michael Silverthorne)
1620
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11
Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (By: John Cottingham)
1641
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12
Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic or the Art of Thinking (By: Pierre Nicole, Antoine Arnauld, Jill Vance Buroker)
1662
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13
Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy (By: Margaret Cavendish, Eileen O'Neill)
1668
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14
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: Gebhardt Edition (By: Baruch Spinoza, Brad S. Gregory, Samuel Shirley, Maarten van Buuren)
1670
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15
The Search after Truth (By: Nicolas Malebranche, Thomas M. Lennon)
1675
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16
Spinoza: Ethics: Proved in Geometrical Order (By: Baruch Spinoza, Michael Silverthorne, Matthew Kisner)
1677
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17
Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion (By: David Scott, Nicholas Jolley, Nicolas Malebranche)
1688
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18
Locke on Toleration (By: Richard Vernon)
1689
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19
Berkeley: Philosophical Writings (By: George Berkeley, Desmond M. Clarke)
1709
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20
Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (By: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lawrence E. Klein)
1711
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21
A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality: With a Treatise of Freewill (By: Ralph Cudworth, Sarah Hutton)
1731
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22
Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (By: Stephen Buckle)
1748
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23
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (By: Adam Smith)
1759
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24
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (By: Immanuel Kant, Robert B. Louden, Manfred Kühn)
1785
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25
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (By: Immanuel Kant, Jens Timmermann, Mary J. Gregor, Christine M. Korsgaard)
1785
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26
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (By: Immanuel Kant, Michael Friedman)
1786
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27
Kant: Critique of Practical Reason (By: Immanuel Kant, Mary J. Gregor, Andrews Reath)
1788
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28
Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (By: Allen Wood, Garrett Green)
1792
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29
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (By: Immanuel Kant)
1793
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30
Novalis: Fichte Studies (By: Novalis, Jane Kneller)
1796
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31
Foundations of Natural Right (By: Frederick Neuhouser, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Michael Baur)
1797
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32
The Metaphysics of Morals (By: Immanuel Kant, Lara Denis, Mary J. Gregor)
1797
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33
The System of Ethics (By: Daniel Breazeale, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Guenter Zöller)
1798
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34
Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Richard E. Crouter)
1799
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35
Hamann: Writings on Philosophy and Language: Risk Factors and Strategies for Prevention (By: Stephen Lord)
1825
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36
On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany and Other Writings (By: Heinrich Heine, Terry P. Pinkard, Howard Pollack-Milgate)
1835
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37
On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species (By: Wilhelm von Humboldt, Peter Heath, Michael Losonsky)
1836
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38
Fear and Trembling (By: Søren Kierkegaard, Sylvia Walsh, C. Stephen Evans)
1843
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39
Untimely Meditations (By: Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel Breazeale)
1876
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40
Daybreak (By: Brian Leiter, Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark)
1881
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41
The Gay Science (By: Bernard Williams, Friedrich Nietzsche, Josefine Nauckhoff)
1882
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42
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (By: Friedrich Nietzsche)
1883
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43
Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (By: Friedrich Nietzsche, Judith Norman, Rolf-Peter Horstmann)
1886
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44
The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (By: Allison P. Coudert, Anne Conway, Taylor Corse)
1982
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45
Orations on Philosophy and Education (By: Philipp Melanchthon, Christine F. Salazar, Sachiko Kusukawa)
1989
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46
Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity (By: Thomas Hobbes, Vere C. Chappell, John Bramhall)
1995
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47
La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings (By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Ann Thomson)
1996
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48
A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (By: Robert Boyle, Michael Hunter, Edward B. Davis)
1996
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49
Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings (By: Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Moses Mendelssohn)
1997
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50
The World and Other Writings (By: René Descartes, Stephen Gaukroger)
1998
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51
Herder: Philosophical Writings (By: Johann Gottfried Herder, Michael N. Forster)
1998
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52
Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism: And Other Writings (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Andrew Bowie)
1998
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53
The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings ( By: Friedrich Nietzsche)
1999
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54
Disputed Questions on the Virtues (By: Thomas Aquinas, E.M. Atkins, Thomas Williams)
1999
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55
Treatise on Tolerance and Other Writings
2000
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56
Philosophical & Theological Writings (By: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
2001
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57
Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings (By: Friedrich Nietzsche, Aaron Ridley, Judith Norman)
2001
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58
Schleiermacher: Lectures on Philosophical Ethics (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Louise Adey Huish, Robert B. Louden)
2002
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59
Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics (By: J.M. Bernstein)
2002
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60
Writings from the Early Notebooks ( By: Friedrich Nietzsche)
2003
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61
Writings from the Late Notebooks ( By: Friedrich Nietzsche)
2003
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62
Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings (By: Isaac Newton, Andrew Janiak)
2004
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63
Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason (By: Immanuel Kant, Gary Hatfield)
2004
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64
Reinhold: Letters on the Kantian Philosophy (By: Karl P. Ameriks, James Hebbeler)
2005
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65
Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings (By: Muhammad Ali Khalidi)
2005
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66
Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians (By: Richard Bett)
2005
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67
Summa Theologiae / Questions on God (By: Brian Davies, Thomas Aquinas, Brian Leftow)
2006
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68
Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings (By: Peter King)
2006
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69
Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings (By: Charles Harry Manekin)
2007
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70
Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: And Other Writings (By: David Hume)
2007
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71
Greek and Roman Aesthetics (By: Oleg V. Bychkov, Anne Sheppard)
2010
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72
Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings (By: Paul Guyer, Patrick Frierson)
2011
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List of Voltaire Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Spells of Enchantment
1991
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2
Classic Erotic Tales
2002
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3
Writers: Their Lives and Works
2018
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Voltaire

Voltaire was born on November 21st, 1694. Voltaire passed away May 30th, 1778 at 83 years old. Voltaire was born in Paris.

Voltaire was the author of the Voltaire Short Stories/Novellas series which consists of 27 novels. The Voltaire Short Stories/Novellas series started in 1715 with the novel The One-eyed Street Porter, Cosi-sancta. The most recently released novel in the Voltaire Short Stories/Novellas series was The Ears of Lord Chesterfield and Chaplain Goudman which was released in 1775. There are no upcoming novels for the Voltaire Short Stories/Novellas series.

Voltaire also wrote the Plays series which has 20 books including Oedipus and Artémire.

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Voltaire: F.A.Q

When was Voltaire Born?

Voltaire was born on November 21st, 1694.

When did Voltaire die?

Voltaire died on May 30th, 1778 at 83 years old.

Where was Voltaire Born?

Voltaire was born in Paris.

What was the first book Voltaire wrote?

The first book written by Voltaire was The One-eyed Street Porter, Cosi-sancta, published in 1715.

What was the most recent book Voltaire wrote?

His most recently released work was God & Human Beings on May 4th, 2010.

How many books has Voltaire written?

Voltaire has written 67 books excluding contributions to anthologies. 27 Short Stories/Novellas, 20 books in the Plays, 14 books in the Non-Fiction Books, 5 books in the Collections, 1 book in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Series.

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