Socrates: A Play in Three Acts by Voltaire (9781434457400)

Socrates: A Play in Three Acts

by Voltaire , Morlock, Frank J.

Paperback - English

Voltaire, the pen name of Fran ois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), uses the great philosopher Socrates's crusty persona, trial, and death as a forum to criticize his enemies and restate his Deism. A drama that deserves a modern re-staging.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

1434457400

EAN

9781434457400

Publisher

BORGO PR

Publication Date

30 Oct 2009

Pages

Weight (kg)

0.15

Dimensions (cm)

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6

About Author

Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) (1694--1778) was one of the key thinkers of the European Enlightenment. Of his many works, "Candide" remains the most popular. <BR>Peter Constantine was awarded the 1998 PEN Translation Award for "Six Early Stories "by Thomas Mann and the 1999 National Translation Award for "The Undiscovered Chekhov: Forty-three New Stories." Widely acclaimed for his recent translation of the complete works of Isaac Babel, he also translated Gogol's "Taras Bulba" and Tolstoy's "The Cossacks "for the Modern Library. His translations of fiction and poetry have appeared in many pu