TY - BOOK AU - Theodore Besterman TI - Voltaire philosophical dictionary / SN - 13: 978-0-14-044257-1 U1 - 103 VOL 22nd PY - 2004///. CY - London : PB - Penguin Books, N2 - A masterpiece of Enlightenment-era literature, this collection of brief, incisive essays constitutes a thought-provoking analysis of eighteenth-century social and religious conventions. Voltaire intended to entertain as well as to enlighten, and his sardonic wit lends a strikingly modern feeling to these writings ER -