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Imprint: Renard Press
ISBN: 9781804472088
Paperback • 152pp • £9.99
129 mm x 198 mm
19/08/26
Thema: DNBM, DNL, JBFV

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Emergency Voltaire

Wit and Wisdom for the 21st Century from Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionaries

Voltaire

Edited and with an introduction by Andrew Crowther

ISBN: 9781804472088
Paperback • 152pp
Published 19 August 2026

£9.99

Free UK delivery on orders over £25

‘What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all full of weakness and errors; let us forgive each other our follies, it is the first law of nature.’

Voltaire was one of the sharpest and funniest writers of the eighteenth century. Satirist, thinker, teller of tales, he observed the follies of humanity with an unflinching eye. He was a passionate believer in freedom of thought and the value of knowledge, doing everything he could to promote rational inquiry in a time of oppressive censorship. His writings in passionate defence of liberty and toleration speak to us today with a new urgency.

Emergency Voltaire provides a completely new selection from his ‘philosophical dictionaries’, offering knowledge and opinion on every subject under the sun and beyond, from faith, fanaticism and frivolity to the meaning of life itself, always with the wit and irreverence for which he is famous.

‘Let us read, and let us dance: these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.’

About the author

François-Marie Arouet (1694–1778), known as Voltaire, was a French writer, philosopher and satirist. Best remembered today for his novella Candide, or The Optimist (1759), he is one of the best known wits and thinkers of the Enlightenment period.

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