Voltaire Almighty A Life in Pursuit of Freedom von RogerPearson Hardcover, 384 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-58234-630-4, ISBN: 1-58234-630-5
"With its tales of illegitimacy, prison, stardom, exile, love affairs, and tireless battles against his critics, priests and king, Roger Pearsonâs Voltaire Almighty brings the father of Enlightenment to vivid life. Voltaire Almighty provides a lively look at the life and thought of one of the major forces behind European Enlightenment. A rebel from start to finish (1694-1778), Voltaire was an ailing and unwanted bastard child who refu ..."
Mallarmé and Circumstance(1st Edition) The Translation of Silence von RogerPearson Hardcover, 288 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926674-6, ISBN: 0-19-926674-3
"Following his Unfolding Mallarmé: The Development of a Poetic Art, this book is the second in Roger Pearson's authoritative two-volume study of the work of Stéphanie Mallarmé (1842-1898), and the first comprehensive study of Mallarmé's 'poetry of circumstance' in any language. For Mallarmé, in a world without God, the role of the poet is to break the silence with language and to confer upon the contingency of circumstance a therapeutic ..."
Voltaire Almighty A Life in Pursuit of Freedom von Roger. Voltaire Pearson Hardcover, 480 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-7495-8, ISBN: 0-7475-7495-2
"Voltaire Almighty provides a lively look at the life and thought of one of the major forces behind the European Enlightenment. A rebel from start to finish (1694 - 1778), Voltaire was an ailing and unwanted bastard child who refused to die; and when he did consent to expire some eighty-four years later, he secured a Christian burial despite a bishop's ban. During much of his life Voltaire was the toast of society for his plays and verse ..."