Voltaire
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Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, but also scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. Voltaire was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties and was at constant risk from the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. His polemics witheringly satirized intolerance and religious dogma, as well as the French institutions of his day. His best-known work and ''magnum opus'', ''Candide'', is a novella which comments on, criticizes and ridicules many events, thinkers and philosophies of his time, most notably Gottfried Leibniz and his belief that our world is the "best of all possible worlds". Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: 1947
Superior document: The Penguin classics L 4
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Published: 2006
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Published: 1996
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Published: 1363, h.š., [1984]
Publisher: انتشارات نیل / Intišārāt-i Nīl
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Published: [2021]
Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Published: 1963