Letters concerning the English Nation - formato ePub

El Tratado sobre la tolerancia es una obra que François-Marie Arouet, más conocido como Voltaire, escribió y publicó en 1763 en el Castillo de Ferney-Voltaire, tras la muerte del hugonote Jean Calas,...

En 1685, Luis XIV revoca el edicto de Nantes, que permitía la libertad de cultos en Francia. En este clima de intolerancia religiosa, Voltaire escribe el Tratado sobre la tolerancia con ocasión de la...

Este libro condensa los argumentos clave contra la intolerancia que Voltaire elaboró en su Tratado sobre la tolerancia con motivo del caso Calas. Las razones y conclusiones de Voltaire eran tan válidas...

Aunque Voltaire empezó a escribir cuentos en su etapa de «cortesano», cuando, como gentilhombre de la cámara del rey, debía proveer al entretenimiento de la corte, en estos textos ya estarán presentes...

En los primeros años del siglo en que nos hallamos, el vulgo no conocía en el Norte mas héroe que Carlos XII. Su valor personal, mas propio de un soldado que de un rey, y el esplendor de sus victorias...

El siglo de Luis XIV es obra literaria escrita por el filósofo, historiador, poeta y literato francés Voltaire en el año 1751. Es además de la historia de un rey, un planteamiento sobre el tema del Progreso,...

El libro “Cartas filosóficas” de Voltaire recoge las epístolas en las que el autor hace un elogio a la Inglaterra del siglo XVIII en aspectos tanto religiosos como políticos e, incluso, filosóficos y...

Las razones y conclusiones de Voltaire eran tan validas entonces como lo son hoy, y la pertinencia de este texto resulta inquietante.A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han...

En los primeros años del siglo en que nos hallamos, el vulgo no conocía en el Norte mas héroe que Carlos XII. Su valor personal, mas propio de un soldado que de un rey, y el esplendor de sus victorias...

En 1685, Luis XIV revoca el edicto de Nantes, que permitía la libertad de cultos en Francia. En este clima de intolerancia religiosa, Voltaire escribe el Tratado sobre la tolerancia con ocasión de la...

Voltaire reflexionó y actuó como un intelectual comprometido, y nos invita a "meter las manos en el mundo". Combinó diversos géneros literarios, convencido de que todos los medios son válidos para llevar...

Cándido es un clásico del humor; sus aventuras nos apresan el interés y las seguimos aun sin que nos interese particularmente la corriente filosófica idealista. Es un fenómeno parecido a Don Quijote:...

Recomendaría 'Zadig, ó El Destino, Historia Oriental' a cualquier lector interesado en la literatura filosófica y satírica. La obra de Voltaire ofrece un retrato mordaz y ameno de la sociedad de su época,...

Candide es la historia de un hombre gentil que, aunque golpeado y golpeado en todas direcciones por el destino, se aferra desesperadamente a la creencia de que vive en "el mejor de los mundos posibles"....

La colección «Conocer una obra» os ofrece la posibilidad de saberlo todo sobre Cándido o el optimismo de Voltaire, gracias a una guía de lectura tan completa como detallada. Su escritura, clara y accesible,...

Cándido, o el optimismo es un cuento filosófico publicado por el filósofo ilustrado Voltaire en 1759. Voltaire nunca admitió abiertamente ser el autor de la controvertida novela, la cual está firmada...

Tales From the Tomes: Vol. 1 is a collection of four mystical stories of magic and science. Lance Kehisato weaves the future and the past together, creating a string of four stories in different worlds,...

Emmaline has been in a coma for two crucial years of her teenage life. Waking life is almost as disorienting, but finally she is reunited with her sister and father. Now she must make up for lost time,...

Children are not brought up in society to focus on politics. They are often encouraged to enjoy their life and their childhood. It is often said that kids should just be kids. But when there is a political...

Aidan Black left the Marine Corps to skip the red tape, but it's a woman from his past he's now trying to avoid… one who believes him capable of murder. Briar Sutton is the last person I expect to see...

Cillian is no stranger to the pull of dark magic as he is the son of both the Dark realm Princess and the Light realm Prince. What doesn't help is that he may have been further infused with dark magic...

This is a collection of ten horror microfiction tales, sometimes called bite-sized fiction or 'drabbles'. These stories are limited to precisely one-hundred words and aim to pack a punch, all the while...

The Stygian Lepus Magazine is a thrilling foray into dark speculative fiction. In each new edition, readers explore the depths of imagination, where fear and fascination intertwine.Offering diverse genres...

The "Love on the Ice" series delivers a pulse-pounding journey through five heart-stopping books that redefine love on and off the hockey rink!Book #1: Melting the Ice Between Us (Novella)I'm not sticking...

"Hast thou seen that lordly castle,That castle by the sea?Golden and red above itThe clouds float gorgeously."Do you remember GratianGratian Conyfer, the godson of the four winds, the boy who lived at...

The stories begin with those which children like bestthe old Blue Beard, Puss in Boots, Hop o my Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, and Toads and Pearls. These were first collected, written,...

"Eugene Witla, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour her, and keep her in sickness...

Quite aside from its natural characteristics, there is an atmosphere about a college town, especially a New England college town, that is unmistakable. It is not so much actively intellectual as passively...

Jaime Febrer arose at nine o'clock. Old Antonia, the faithful servant who cherished the memory of the past glories of the family, and who had attended upon Jaime from the day of his birth, had been bustling...

SAMSARA'S DEAD HAVE CHOSEN NEL. AND THE CACOPHONY CALLED FOR JUSTICE. Archaeologist Dr. Nel Bently has never been farther from home. With a tenuous ceasefire from Lin's rebellion force and genocidal Harris...

Dangerously good-looking. Dangerously breathtaking. This dangerously sinful cowboy is going to steal her heart. When the outback's bare-knuckle champion, Dex Riggs, arrives in Sophie's emergency room,...

Nina Rosethorn, a university student, survives a lightning strike and returns home to Vancouver. But the incident triggers a haunting ability: premonitions manifest in her nightmares. Determined to prevent...

Star Maker, regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported...

The contents of the work which gave such pleasure to this learned antiquary are as follows:I. IntroductionSimilarity of Arts and CustomsSimilarity of NamesOrigin of the WorkImitationCasual CoincidenceMiltonDante.II....

Agatha-nominated series! A madcap mystery set in the off, off, OFF Broadway world of theater (#4 in the Ivy Meadows Mystery series)There's a new sheriff in town—and she can sing! When Gold Bug Gulch's...

Have you ever felt that itch in the back of your brain you just can't scratch? A particular gnawing on your mind biting away your best thoughts? Meet Wormy: the literal brain worm residing inside the...

In Sister Carrie, Dreiser portrayed a changing society, writing about a young woman who flees rural life for the city (Chicago) and struggles with poverty, complex relationships with men, and prostitution....

The first question to be proposed by a rational being is, not what is profitable, but what is Right. Duty must be primary, prominent, most conspicuous, among the objects of human thought and pursuit....

Tales of Space and Time, A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" Some Books of...

The "Times.""For its rapid action, in fact, we have seldom read a better story, or one which is more full of incidents, sanguinary, trenchant, and robust."The "Daily Telegraph.""A true and a wonderfully...

This book, re-edited and illustrated by e-kitap projesi and published again in ebook format. In this book, telling that Cooterells adventures, and so was a treasure adventure, Naturally then Ben felt...

The SCENE is the Exterior of a Cottage in West Issacshire on a desperately Arcadian afternoon in August. MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering...

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little...

The day that Henry Smix met and embraced Gasoline Power and went up Main Street hand in hand with it is not yet forgotten. It was a hasty marriage, so to speak, and the results of it were truly deplorable....

COMMON opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an...

This is the third, and probably the last, of the Fairy Books of many colours. First there was the Blue Fairy Book; then, children, you asked for more, and we made up the Red Fairy Book; and, when you...