TY - BOOK AU - Voltaire AU - Kallio,O.A. TI - Kaarle XII:n historia AV - DL PY - 2016/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Charles XII, King of Sweden, 1682-1718 KW - Sweden -- History -- Charles XII, 1697-1718 KW - Sweden -- Kings and rulers -- Biography N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Charles_XII Wikipedia page about this book: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_XII:s_historia; Release date is 2016-11-05; E-text prepared by Tapio Riikonen; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Kaarle XII:n historia" by Voltaire is a book published in 1731 about Swedish King Charles XII and the Great Northern War. Voltaire presents a positive portrait of the Swedish monarch, portraying him as a counterweight to Peter the Great's brutality and unjust warfare. Through his literary style emphasizing narrative tension and elegant prose, Voltaire created what became the first major work on Charles XII's life—an adventure story that shaped Swedish historical tradition, introducing anecdotes and details that persist in historiography to this day. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53454 ER -