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Now available: Complete Works of Voltaire, vol.6A-6C, Lettres sur les Anglais (I-III), Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2022, ISBN 978-0-7294-1234-6, April 2022, hb, 4 vol.
The ‘Lettres sur les Anglais’ (also known as the ‘Lettres philosophiques’) is one of the key masterpieces of the European eighteenth century, a manifesto of Enlightenment thinking…[Read more]
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Complete Works of Voltaire, vol.29C
Voltaire, Précis du siècle de Louis XV (III)
Histoire de la guerre de 1741 | Appendix 5 | General index
Ed. Janet Godden, James Hanrahan
Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2020
ISBN 978-0-7294-1226-1, hb, xxxvi+506 pp.
‘This edition should make it possible to study these works in new ways and will substantially exp…[Read more]
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Just published: Complete Works of Voltaire, vol.6C, Lettres sur les Anglais (III): Lettre sur M. Locke.
Letter 13 of Voltaire’s “Lettres sur les Anglais” discusses Locke and the question of the soul. The first version of this text, the “Lettre sur M. Locke” – which we present in this volume – was suppressed in 1733 because of its quasi…[Read more]
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Just published: Complete Works of Voltaire, vol.84, Fragments divers
Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, vol.84
Fragments divers
Ed. Gillian Pink, John Renwick et al.
Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2020
ISBN 978-0-7294-1153-0, hb, xxii+408 pp.
This volume brings together a range of miscellaneous short texts by Voltaire, mostly undated and principally m…[Read more]
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Just published: Complete Works of Voltaire, vol.29A
Précis du siècle de Louis XV (I): Introduction, chapters 1-16
Ed. Janet Godden and James Hanrahan
Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2019
ISBN 978-0-7294-1137-0, hb, 7 ill., xxii+476 p.
(http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/…)
The Précis du siècle de Louis XV is Vol…[Read more]