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Sold as a multi-volume set – the individual volumes are also available for purchase. Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. One in a 13-volume set which reprints Voltaire's marginal notes in the alphabetical sequence of the books in his library. An indispensable scholarly tool for students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment with research interests in Voltaire.

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"The Library: ""Volume eight covers just under 100 titles: histories, dictionaries, political pamphlets, fiction, poetry, travels, biography, etc., mainly eighteenth-century works with a sprinkling of older titles. […]. Voltaire was a purposeful reader. He mined his books for information and ideas but also, characteristically, engaged in combat with them, taking up the authors (whom he generally ‘tutoyered’) point by point in a highly focused, very specific way. These quarrels and refutations sometimes formed the foundation of more measured opinions expressed later in correspondence or in print. Thus the works included in this edition go some way to showing not only what Voltaire read closely in his years at Ferney, but also how he read and what he made of his reading.[...] Volume eight has the good fortune to include all the known surviving annotated copies of works by Rousseau, whom Voltaire detested."" Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada: ""Copieuse et érudite, l'annotation établit des liens génétiques et sémantiques entre les marginalia et les autres écrits du philosophe; elle reconstitue minutieusement le contexte philosophique, historique, littéraire et culturel de la lecture voltairienne [...] la partie la plus importante de ce tome se rapporte aux œuvres de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. La responsable de cette partie, Nathalie Ferrand, contribue un essai préfaciel qui cerne admirablement la relation aux multiples facettes entre les deux philosophes. [...] L'achat de la série complète est fort conseillé aux bibliothèques de recherche, et la lecture, aux spécialistes de Voltaire, aux histoirens de la réception du texte sous l'Ancien Régime, aux doctorants en quête de sujets de thèse et aux amateurs de marginalia, car ni la plume voltairienne ni la qualité du travail de l'équipe éditoriale ne les décevront point."" Studi francesi: ""[C]es notes en marge, que nous pouvons lire désormais dans le contexte qui les a vues naître, se révèlent dans tout leur intérêt grâce au travail patient, et intelligent, de l'équipe qui s'est chargée de cette tâche, apparemment ingrate, en fait très utile, et à laquelle doit aller la reconnaissance de tout dix-huitiémiste."""

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