{"product_id":"2940149349906","title":"History of Charles XII [Christmas Summary Classics]","description":"VOLTAIRE\u003cbr\u003eVoltaire's \"History of Charles XII.\" was his earliest notable essay in history, written during his sojourn in England in 1726-9, when he was acquiring the materials for his \"Letters on the English,\" eleven years after the death of the Swedish monarch. The prince who \"left a name at which the world grew pale, to point a moral and adorn a tale,\" was killed by a cannon-ball when thirty-six years old, after a career extraordinarily brilliant, extraordinarily disastrous, and in result extraordinarily ineffective. A tremendous contrast to the career, equally unique, of his great antagonist, Peter the Great of Russia, whose history Voltaire wrote thirty years later (seeante). Naturally the two works in a marked degree illustrate each other. In both cases Voltaire claims to have had first-hand information from the principal actors in the drama.","brand":"Kartindo Publishing House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079541735664,"sku":"2940149349906","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149349906_p0.jpg?v=1763715242","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149349906","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}