- Mass Market Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: Dutton
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0525481907
- ISBN-13: 978-0525481904
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 13 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 45 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #991,019 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1.0 out of 5 stars
dissapointing,
By A Customer
This review is from: Voltaire in Love (Tr) (Paperback)
it is NOT a biography. It is a bounch of events glued together. At times I felt lost because she jumps from one topic to another and makes the reader confused when she throws a few strange sounding names without explaining who they were. As for the research of the subject I can't comment on the french part, however, on the polish side, the author didn't do a whole lot research because she couldn't even spell the name of an ex-King of Poland correctly! It's Stanisław Leszczyñski, not Stanislas Leczinski!!! She also undermines the linguistic abilities of the readers, thinking maybe that no-one but the French can really figure out the french language. I would not recommend this book if you really want to learn something about Voltaire and his love life, because there was no love life in that book!!
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is the book that hooked me--and inspired my book,
By FearlessReader (New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Voltaire in Love (Tr) (Paperback)
When I set out to write a book, "A Visit From Voltaire" imagining the return of Voltaire to the 21st century, this is the book that hooked me before I moved into the primary sources. And it remains one of the best books to date, despite a few little hitches in her facts, for readability, entertainment and capturing the spirit of Voltaire's middle years. Anybody who reads it will finish with a wonderful understanding of the man's energy, resilience and courage. A must.Dinah Lee Küng
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Candid Voltaire,
This review is from: Voltaire in Love (Tr) (Paperback)
Nancy Mitford was a brilliant writer, and the bedrock of virtually all her works - even the histories - was satire. And, true to the first law of all satirists, she takes no prisoners, even in dealing with such luminaries as Voltaire and his lover, Mme du Chatelet. From the very start, for instance, she tells us that Voltaire rarely had any original thoughts: his true genius was in his turn of phrase. In fact, to Mme du Chatelet's great embarassment, he was likely impotent, was virtually banished from Versailles, flirted outrageously with the openly gay King Frederick of Prussia and, later, developed an infatuation for his own niece. Mme du Chatelet does rather better in Mitford's estimation - she is portrayed as a gifted scientist and an independently important literary figure - but as a lover, she too is deeply flawed. Time and again, she drove Voltaire close to bankruptcy with her gambling debts. And her premature death was brought on by childbirth - not Voltaire's baby, mind, but those of her "toy boy" lover. Yet it is clear that, for all that, she had met in Voltaire her true life partner, and within their own adulterous union, they tolerated each other's infidelities with good grace. A classic chronicle of human foibles by an author who is utterly unintimidated by her biographical subjects.
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