The Revelation of St John the Divine and the Book of Job

Informationen zum Autor François-Marie Arouet! writing under the pseudonym Voltaire! was born in 1694 into a Parisian bourgeois family. He became notorious for lampoons on leading notables and was twice imprisoned in the Bastille. By his mid-thirties his literary activities precipitated a four-year exile in England where he won the praise of Swift and Pope for his political tracts. His publication! three years later in France! of Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais (1733)! an attack on French Church and State! forced him to flee again. For twenty years Voltaire lived mainly away from Paris. Among his best-known books are satirical tales such as Zadig (1747) and Candide (1759). He died in Paris in 1778. Klappentext Aprofound consolation to early believers! these two books from the Bible deeply influenced the rise of the Christian church: the apocalyptic Revelation portraying the religion's ultimate triumph over its foes and The Book of Job depicting one man's faith in the face of incredible adversity.

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• Authors: Albert Camus, Baldassare Castiglione, Conte Baldassare Castiglione, Thomas Hobbes, Henry D. Thoreau, Voltaire
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.08.2005
• EAN: 9780141023854
• ISBN: 978-0-14-102385-4
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 176 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Penguin Great Ideas; Penguin Books, Great Ideas; Great Ideas; Penguin Press Great Ideas; Penguin Press Great Ideas; Penguin Books, Great Ideas
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature