VOLTAIRE'S ROMANCES: 20+ Novels, Short Stories, Satires & Fables (Illustrated)

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;VOLTAIRE'S ROMANCES: 20+ Novels, Short Stories, Satires & Fables (Illustrated)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Francois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He was an outspoken advocate of several liberties, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day. Table of Contents:CandideZadigMicromegasThe HuronThe White BullThe Man of Forty CrownsThe Princess of BabylonThe Sage and the AtheistMemnon the PhilosopherThe Black and the WhiteThe World as it GoesAndre des Touches at SiamBababecJeannot and ColinThe Travels of ScarmentadoA Conversation with a ChinesePlato's DreamPleasure in Having no PleasureAn Adventure in IndiaThe Good BrahminThe Two ComfortersAncient Faith and FableThe Study of NatureDialogue between Marcus Aurelius and a Recollet FriarDialogue between a Brahmin and a JesuitDialogues between Lucretius and PosidoniusDialogue between a Client and His LawyerDialogue between Madame De Maintenon and Mademoiselle De L'EnclosDialogue between a Savage and a Bachelor of Arts