Roger Pearson (1) (1949–)

Author of Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom

For other authors named Roger Pearson, see the disambiguation page.

About the Author

Roger Pearson is Professor of French at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in French at the Queen's College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Works by Roger Pearson

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Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom (2005) 199 copies, 1 review

Stéphane Mallarmé (2010) 15 copies

Stendhal : The red and the black and The charterhouse of Parma (1994) 10 copies

Unacknowledged legislators : the poet as lawgiver in post-revolutionary France : Chateaubriand, Staël, Lamartine, Hugo, Vigny (2016) 4 copies

Unfolding Mallarmé: The Development of a Poetic Art (1996) 3 copies

Stendhal's violin : a novelist and his reader (1988) 3 copies

The fables of reason : a study of Voltaire's "Contes philosophiques" (1993) 2 copies

Mallarmé and circumstance : the translation of silence (2004) 2 copies

A Life: The Humble Truth (Oxford World's Classics) 2 copies

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Associated Works

Candide (1759) — Translator, some editions — 23,060 copies, 345 reviews

Germinal (1885) — Translator, some editions — 6,126 copies, 89 reviews

La Bête Humaine (1890) — Translator, some editions — 1,848 copies, 26 reviews

Candide and Other Stories (1759) — Translator, some editions — 1,219 copies, 11 reviews

The Masterpiece (1886) — Translator, some editions; Introduction, some editions — 1,088 copies, 17 reviews

Conversations About the End of Time (1998) — Translator, some editions — 324 copies, 5 reviews

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Birthdate: 1949
Gender: male
Organizations: University of Oxford
Awards and honors: British Academy (Fellow)
Palmes Académiques (Officier)
Map Location: UK

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Voltaire almighty : a life in pursuit of freedom by Roger Pearson

An eminently readable biography of Voltaire. Informed, authoritative, humorous, Pearson manages to convey exactly how Voltaire came to be the poster-child of the enlightenment movement and ground-breaker for ideas that would ultimately lead to the French revolution.

Jun 5, 2018