François-Marie Arouet, más conocido como Voltaire, fue un escritor, historiador, filósofo y abogado francés, que perteneció a la francmasonería y figura como uno de los principales representantes de la Ilustración, un período que enfatizó el poder de la razón humana y de la ciencia en detrimento de la religión. En 1746 Voltaire fue elegido miembro de la Academia francesa, en la que ocupó el asiento número 33.
François-Marie Arouet was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe) and historian. Known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire, he was famous for his wit, in addition to his criticism of Christianity—especially of the Roman Catholic Church—and of slavery. Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion and separation of church and state.
Voltaire, de son vrai nom François-Marie Arouet, né le 21 novembre 1694 à Paris où il est mort le 30 mai 1778, est un écrivain, notamment dramaturge et poète, et un philosophe et encyclopédiste français, figure majeure de la philosophie des Lumières, jouissant de son vivant d'une célébrité internationale.
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and politician. One of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature in the English-speaking canon, he was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later years, he served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
William Chambers Morrow was an American writer, now noted mainly for his short stories of horror and suspense. He is probably best known for the much-anthologised story "His Unconquerable Enemy" (1889), about the implacable revenge of a servant whose limbs have been amputated on the orders of a cruel rajah.
