Letters on England

Number of Chapters: 25

Length: 05 hours and 10 minutes

Language: English

Voltaire spent his early thirties in England as an exile following the Bastille imprisonment for his satires. With passionate admiration, he then wrote this series of letters in English putting forward his views on the 18th century England, in contrast with the feudal society of his home country, encompassing aspects of religion, politics, sciences, and literature. The book was published in England and the free England received these philosophical, political, critical, poetical, heretical, and diabolical letters with delight, whereas in France, the book was denounced and publicly burnt in Paris as scandalous, contrary to religion, to morals, and respect for authority. - Summary by IstXA

INTRODUCTION (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER I. ON THE QUAKERS (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER II. ON THE QUAKERS (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER III. ON THE QUAKERS (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER IV. ON THE QUAKERS (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER V. ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER VI. ON THE PRESBYTERIANS (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER VII. ON THE SOCINIANS, OR ARIANS, OR ANTITRINITARIANS (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER VIII. ON THE PARLIAMENT (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER IX. ON THE GOVERNMENT (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER X. ON TRADE (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER XI. ON INOCULATION (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER XII. ON THE LORD BACON (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER XIII. ON MR. LOCKE (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER XIV. ON DESCARTES AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER XV. ON ATTRACTION (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER XVI. ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S OPTICS (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER XVII. ON INFINITES IN GEOMETRY, AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S CHRONOLOGY (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER XVIII. ON TRAGEDY (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER XIX. ON COMEDY (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER XX. ON SUCH OF THE NOBILITY AS CULTIVATE THE BELLES LETTRES (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER XXI. ON THE EARL OF ROCHESTER AND MR. WALLER (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER XXII. ON MR. POPE AND SOME OTHER FAMOUS POETS (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER XXIII. ON THE REGARD THAT OUGHT TO BE SHOWN TO MEN OF LETTERS (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

LETTER XXIV. ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND OTHER ACADEMIES (Xiaoyan Arrowsmith)

The audiobook Letters on England falls under the genres of Letters. It is written by Voltaire.

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