The Age of Voltaire (The Story of Civilization Vol. 9)

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1965. Hardcover_cloth. Near Fine/VeryGood. 6.63"x9.25" 898 indexed pages. BCE/BOMC. Red cloth. Gilt letters on front and spine. List of 90 Illustrations in frontal section plus endpaper maps of Europe in 1715 after the Teaties of Utrecht & Rastadt; Central Europe about 1789. DJ design by Joseph B. Del Valle. Authors' photo by Bill Ray. Cloth sewn binding. Tiny square blind-stamped on bottom right corner of back board. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. No price on DJ. DJ has small tears to edges. Will require additional postage for weight. Author WILL DURANT was awarded the Pulitzer Prize 1968 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom 1977 . He spent over fifty years writing his critically acclaimed eleven-volume series The Story of Civilization. The Age of Voltaire (Volume 9): A biography of a great man and the period he embodied. We witness Voltaire's satiric work in the salons and the theater as well as his banishment to England. With him we view the complex relationships between nobility, clergy, bourgeoisie and peasantry in the France of Louis XV. We explore the music of Bach and the struggle between Frederick the Great and Maria Theresa of Austria. And finally we hear an imaginary discussion between Voltaire and Pope Benedict XIV on the significance and value of religion. The Story of Civilization, Volume IX: A history of civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, with special emphasis on the conflict between religion and philosophy. This is the ninth volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series. Source: Publisher.