Morley approaches Voltaire as a force in the history of ideas rather than a subject for anecdote. He considers the English influences of the exile years, the plays, poems and histories, the stormy stay with Frederick the Great at Berlin, and above all the long campaign against the Church that made Voltaire the voice of the French Enlightenment.
Still one of the clearest English studies of Voltaire, written with the conviction of a great Victorian freethinker. Download the free EPUB.