Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: Voltaire, Freeman Dyson, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Milovan ilas, Shintar Ishihara, Jack Wrangler, Todd Joseph Miles Holden, Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt, Ilya Ehrenburg, Jean-Pierre Hallet, Georgios Grivas, Heinrich Harrer, Lovisa von Burghausen, Christine Jorgensen, Gleb Botkin, Malachy McCourt, Louis Cesar de La Baume Le Blanc, Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur, Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay, Gluckel of Hameln, Glafcos Clerides, Aleksei Andreyevich Volkov, Jess Oppenheimer, Rebecca Walker, Dorothea de Ficquelmont, May Torok von Szendro, Lili Dehn, Anna Vyrubova, Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Medeiros e Albuquerque, Diana Barrymore, Erhard Kroeger, Tatiana Botkina, David Henry Sterry, Adele Morales, Leonor Lopez de Cordoba, Tito Mukhopadhyay, Pryse Lockhart Gordon, Konstantin Mihailovi, John Gyles, Adolfo Caminha, Denis Davydov, Nathan Rabin, Dimitrios Partsalidis, Sofoklis Dousmanis, Louise von Plessen, Vera Broido, Jack Black, P. G. Downes, Erin Merryn, Francisco Mendez, Jimmy Greenspoon, Maria Versfelt, Linda Ashcroft. Excerpt: Francois-Marie Arouet (French pronunciation: 21 November 1694 - 30 May 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire (pronounced: ), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade. Voltaire was a prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form including plays, poetry, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform, despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma and the French...