Voltaire (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Voltaire is probably the most prolific and versatile writer of any age. He wrote in all the literary forms, and he wrote in them concurrently. His numerous plays fill 6 volumes, and his correspondence 102 volumes. He was especially active toward the end of his life, when, living at Ferney, and in his eighties, he wrote pamphlets; one of his best philosophical poems, Épître à Horace (1772); and many plays. He went to Paris at the age of eighty-three, shortly before he died, to see a production of his latest classical tragedy, Irène (1778)....

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