John Fletcher was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia from 1969 to 1998. His other translations include The Georgics by Claude Simon (Calder, 1989) and The Red Cross and the Holocaust by Jean-Claude Favez (CUP, 1999). Nicholas Cronk is the General Editor of the Complete Works of Voltaire published by the Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire (CUP, 2009). For Oxford World's Classics he has introduced and annotated Cyrano de Bergerac , Diderot's Rameau's Nephew and First Satire, and Voltaire's Letters concerning the English Nation.
a marvellously Swiftian look at the bleakness of existence. *
Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian *
In John Fletcher's wonderfully luminous translation, the
Dictionnaire philosophique portatif is like a breath of fresh
air... Nicholas Cronk's discreet, helpful introduction and notes
direct us to Voltaire's main concern: religion. * David Coward,
Times Literary Supplement *
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