The first modern English edition of diverse Enlightenment-era writings by Prussian monarch Frederick the GreatFrederick II of Prussia (1712-86), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific writer of philosophical discourses, poems, epics, satires, and more, while maintaining extensive correspondence with prominent intellectuals, Voltaire "This collection reveals the extent to which Frederick was engaged with the debates of the French Enlightenment and offers a textured picture of his intellectual world. . . . An invaluable tool."---Anton M. Matytsin, Journal of Modern History