Complete Works of Voltaire
The Complete Works of Voltaire is the first critical edition of the totality of Voltaire's writings arranged chronologically. The project was started by the bibliographer and translator Theodore Besterman who only lived to see the first two volumes published. It is currently published by the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford.
Each text is given an introduction, variants and detailed annotations. The first volume was published in 1968; the edition will comprise nearly 200 volumes by its completion. The next volume is due in 2020. In 2010, the foundation was awarded the by the Académie Française for this fifty-year project.Reviews
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