The Friends of Voltaire

The Friends of Voltaire, written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall under the pseudonym S.G. Tallentyre, was published in 1906. In 1907 it was published in Great Britain under the author's own name by Putnam's Sons. This classic work about Voltaire was still being printed nearly 100 years later in 2003.

The book is in the form of an anecdotal biography telling the stories of ten men whose lives fell very closely together. The ten men were true contemporaries and aside from their friendship with Voltair...