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Micromegas and Other Short Fictions
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Francois Voltaire
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08-27 - Publisher: National Geographic Books

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Somewhere between tales and polemics, these funny, ribald, and inventive pieces show Voltaire doing what he does best: brilliantly challenging received wisdom,
Micromegas and Other Short Fictions
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Francois Voltaire
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-05-30 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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Something between a tale and a polemic, these "fables of reason" are feats of narrative compression and contain much of Voltaire's best and funniest writing. Fr
Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Voltaire
Categories: French literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1961-05 - Publisher: Signet Classics

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Voltaire, France's most distinguished man of letters, derided the bureaucracies of his day with savage contempt and entertained readers, creating exotic panoram
Mountains and Megastructures
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Martin Beattie
Categories: Social Science
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This book explores the shared qualities of mountains as naturally-formed landscapes, and of megastructures as manmade landscapes, seeking to unravel how each ca
The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters
Language: en
Pages: 640
Authors: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-01 - Publisher: Routledge

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From vampires and demons to ghosts and zombies, interest in monsters in literature, film, and popular culture has never been stronger. This concise Encyclopedia