by Voltaire · INSTITUTO PROVINCIAL DE INVESTIGACIONES Y ESTUDIOS · tapa dura · ISBN 9788402089205
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«La Princesa de Babilonia» is Voltaire's philosophical novel, published by the Instituto Provincial de Investigaciones y Estudios in hardback (175 pages).
The story centres on Formosanta, princess of Babylon, and the shepherd Amazan; love and jealousy drive them to travel through numerous countries. Amid adventures and encounters, Voltaire uses fable and irony to confront the protagonists and the reader with the ideals of the Enlightenment.
1982 edition, complete and illustrated, number 72 of the Club Joven Bruguera collection, with illustrations by Petra Steinmeyer. Work originally published in 1768 as «La Princesse de Babylone».
Work of interest to readers of French classics and philosophical satire of the Enlightenment.
François-Marie Arouet, known by his pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
