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UNISA996201149603316 |
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The Cambridge companion to Voltaire / / [edited by] Nicholas Cronk [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009 |
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1-139-80123-6 |
1-139-00235-X |
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1 online resource (xv, 235 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Cambridge companions to literature |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-223) and index. |
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The making of a name : a life of Voltaire / Geoffrey Turnovsky -- Voltaire and authorship / Nicholas Cronk -- Voltaire : philosopher or philosophe? / David Beeson and Nicholas Cronk -- Voltaire and clandestine manuscripts / Miguel Benítez -- Voltaire and the myth of England / John Leigh -- Voltaire's masks : theatre and theatricality / Russell Goulbourne -- Voltaire as story-teller / Gianni Iotti -- Candide / Philip Stewart -- Voltaire and history / Catherine Volpilhac-Auger -- Voltaire's correspondence / Christiane Mervaud -- Voltaire : pamphlets and polemic / Olivier Ferret -- Voltaire and the politics of toleration / John Renwick -- Voltaire and the Bible / Graham Gargett -- The Voltaire effect / Daniel Brewer. |
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As a leading thinker of the European Enlightenment, Voltaire is a central figure in France's collective cultural memory. The popularity of Candide has made him perhaps best known as a writer of tales. Yet these represent only a fraction of his entire œuvre. Voltaire created a style of authorship which made him the most famous writer in Europe and made him a figurehead for a certain style of writing and thinking. This Companion covers his plays, fiction, pamphlets, correspondence, biblical criticism, and historical, political and philosophical thought, to give a wide-ranging view of his writings. The most comprehensive book on Voltaire available in English, it makes accessible the most recent research in France as well as the English-speaking world, in a series of original essays and a guide to sources. The essays |
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demonstrate why Voltaire remains an essential point of reference in defining the modern intellectual today. |
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UNINA9910154885303321 |
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Shanle Leland |
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American airline's secret war in China : project seven alpha, WWII / / Leland Shanle |
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South Yorkshire, England : , : Pen and Sword Aviation, , 2016 |
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2016 |
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1 online resource (198 pages) |
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WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL FICTION AWARD for 2012; by the Military Writers Society of America (MWSA). P7A IS THE FIRST IN A TRILOGY SET IN WWII: In late 1941, President Roosevelt agonized over the rapid advances of the Japanese forces in Asia; they seemed unstoppable. He foresaw their intentions of taking India and linking up with the two other Axis Powers, Germany and Italy, in an attempt to conquer the Eastern Hemisphere. US naval forces had been surprised and diminished in Pearl Harbor and the army was not only outnumbered but also ill-prepared to take on the invading hoards. One of Roosevelt's few options was to form a defensive line on the eastern side of the Patkai and Himalayan Ranges; there, he could look for support from the Chinese and Burmese. It was the only defense to a Japanese invasion of India. To support and supply the troops who were fighting in hostile jungle terrain, where overland routes had been cut off, he desperately needed to set up an air supply from Eastern India. His problem was lack of aircraft and experienced pilots to fly the dangerous Hump, over the worlds highest mountains. Hence the inception of Operation Seven Alpha, a plan to enlist the aircraft - DC-3s - and the pilots - veterans |
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of World War One - of American Airlines. This newly formed elite Squadron would fly the medium-range aircraft in a series of long-distance hops across the Pacific and Southern Asia to the Assam Valley in India. They would then create and operate the vital supply route, carrying arms, ammunition and food Eastward to the Allied bases, before returning with wounded personnel. This is the story of that little-known operation, carried out in the early days of the Burma Campaign. The book is based on firsthand experiences of those who were involved, and it serves as a fitting tribute to the bravery and inventiveness of a band of men who answered their country's desperate call at the outset of the war against Japan in Asia. |
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UNICAMPANIAVAN0046102 |
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Schermature solari / Lucia Ceccherini Nelli ... [et al.] ; a cura di Marco Sala |
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339 p. : ill. ; 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM. |
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