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Voltaire Almighty
A Life in Pursuit of Freedom
von Roger Pearson
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 ..."

Voltaire Almighty(Updated)
A Life in Pursuit of Freedom
von Roger Pearson
Paperback, 480 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2006 von Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-7957-1, ISBN: 0-7475-7957-1

"During much of his life Voltaire's plays and verse made him the toast of society, but his barbed wit and commitment to reason also got him into trouble. Jailed twice and eventually banished by the King, he was an outspoken critic of religious intolerance and persecution. His personal life was as colourful as his intellectual one. Voltaire never married, but had long-term affairs with two women: Emilie, who died after giving birth to the ..."

Voltaire de almachtige(1st Edition)
een leven lang op zoek naar vrijheid
von Roger Pearson
Paperback, 510 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2006 von De Bezige Bij
ISBN-13: 978-90-234-1889-4, ISBN: 90-234-1889-1

"Biografie van de Franse filosoof (1694-1778)."

Candide and Other Stories
(Oxford World's Classics)
von Roger Pearson Voltaire, Roger Pearson, Francois Voltaire
Paperback, 352 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2006 von Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-280726-7, ISBN: 0-19-280726-9

"'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best of all possible worlds' - the Old and the New - before finally accepting that his old philosophy tutor Dr Pangloss has got it all wrong. There are no grounds for his daft theory of Optimism. Yet life goes on. We must cultivate our garden, ..."

Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Candide and Other Stories
von Roger Pearson, Francois Voltaire
Veröffentlicht 2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-151770-9, ISBN: 0-19-151770-4

Mallarmé and Circumstance(1st Edition)
The Translation of Silence
von Roger Pearson
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 ..."

Germinal(Reprint)
(Penguin Classics)
von Émile Zola, Roger Pearson, Ã‰Mile Zola
Paperback, 592 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Penguin Classics
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044742-2, ISBN: 0-14-044742-3

"The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope. Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, ..."

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

Merton & Buddhism(1st Edition)
(The Fons Vitae Thomas Merton series)
von Bonny Bowman Thurston, Roger Lipsey, James A. Wiseman, Paul M. Pearson, Thomas Merton, Jonathan Montaldo, Roger Corless, Gray Henry, Roger I. Corless
Paperback, 271 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2007 von Fons Vitae
ISBN-13: 978-1-887752-84-8, ISBN: 1-887752-84-6

Angelic Mistakes
The Art of Thomas Merton
von Roger Lipsey, Paul M. Pearson, Thomas Merton
Hardcover, 197 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2006 von New Seeds
ISBN-13: 978-1-59030-313-9, ISBN: 1-59030-313-X

Advancing Maths for AQA(2nd Edition)
Mechanics 1
von Mr Ted Graham, Mr Sam Boardman, Mr Roger Williamson, Mr David Pearson, Aidan Burrows, Joan Corbett, University Of Hull, Harry Hill
Paperback, 164 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Heinemann Educational Publishers
Import
ISBN-13: 978-0-435-51336-8, ISBN: 0-435-51336-2

Hail Mary
The Drew Pearson Story
von Drew Pearson, Frank -. Editors Luksa, Roger -. Forreword Staubach
Hardcover, 296 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Rogers Publishing And Consulting, Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-9727488-2-7, ISBN: 0-9727488-2-2