Voltaire: A Sketch of His Life and Works

Evelyn Beatrice Hall's full biography, written as S. G. Tallentyre, follows Voltaire from the Bastille to England, Prussia and Ferney. The most detailed and readable life of Voltaire in English.

S. G. Tallentyre

Portraits of the thinkers around Voltaire: d'Alembert, Diderot, Galiani, Vauvenargues, d'Holbach, Grimm, Helvétius, Turgot and Beaumarchais. This is the book where the quote 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it' first appears.

S. G. Tallentyre

John Morley's classic critical study weighs Voltaire as a thinker, historian and enemy of the Church. A sharp Victorian reading of what the Enlightenment owed him, still quoted by scholars today.

John Morley