Voltaire in Exile by Ian Davidson - 2005-01-11

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 2005. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

2004. Grove Press. 8vo. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine DJ. New.

Grove Press, January 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. First American Edition. ; 9.1 X 6.4 X 1.3 inches; 368 pages

Grove Press, 2005-01-11. Hardcover. New.

NY: Grove Press, 2005. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1753, Voltaire — playwright, poet, philosopher, and one of the most fêted figures in Europe — was forced by Louis XV into exile, where he remained for the last twenty-five years of his life. These years heralded a startling new beginning for this remarkable man. Voltaire carved out a new and vibrant world in his isolation, becoming a successful entrepreneur and writing his masterpiece Candide. In Voltaire in Exile, Ian Davidson re-creates this period in the life of one of the giants of the Enlightenment. By painstakingly translating the rich correspondence between Voltaire and his family, members of the Court at Versailles, and the French intellectual elite, Davidson allows us to discover Voltaire the artist, the campaigner, the aesthete, the lover, the humorist. The result is a wonderfully vivid portrait of this extraordinarily funny, iconoclastic, complex, and, above all,… Read More

Grove Press, 2005-01-11. Hardcover. Like New.

Grove Press, USA, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. list of illustrations, acknowledgements, introduction by author, notes, bibliography and index. Between pages 137 and 138 there are eight pages of black and white reproductions of contemporary illustrations. "In 1753, Voltaire - playwright, poet, philosopher, and one of the most feted figures in Europe - was forced into exile by Louis XV, where he would remain for the last twenty-five years of his life. These years heralded a starting new beginning during which Voltaire became a successful entrepreneur and wrote his masterpiece Candide. Cast out by the establishment, Voltaire also develop this astonishingly modern ideas of human rights, borne out in his campaigns against a series of miscarriages of justice." -- from the rear panel blurb. Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 342, [5] pages,. No damage to describe. Clean tidy… Read More

New York: Grove Press, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near fine book with VG DJ slight shelfwear unclipped no owner inscription scarce in UK