Voltaire Books In Order

Novels

  1. Candide (1759)

Collections

  1. Candide and Other Tales (1937)
  2. Candide and Related Texts (1942)
  3. Candide, Zadig (1961)
  4. Candide and Other Stories (1990)
  5. Zadig and Other Stories (2020)

Non fiction

  1. Philosophical Dictionary (1843)
  2. God and Human Beings (2010)

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Candide

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One of the finest satires ever written, Voltaire‘s Candide savagely skewers this very optimistic approach to life as a shamefully inadequate response to human suffering. The swift and lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cun gonde, and tortured by the Inquisition. As Candide experiences and witnesses calamity upon calamity, he begins to discover that contrary to the teachings of his tutor, Dr. Pangloss all is not always for the best. After many trials, travails, and incredible reversals of fortune, Candide and his friends finally retire together to a small farm, where they discover that the secret of happiness is simply to cultivate one s garden, a philosophy that rejects excessive optimism and metaphysical speculation in favor of the most basic pragmatism.

Filled with wit, intelligence, and an abundance of dark humor, Candide is relentless and unsparing in its attacks upon corruption and hypocrisy in religion, government, philosophy, science, and even romance. Ultimately, this celebrated work teaches us that it is possible to challenge blind optimism without losing the will to live and pursue a happy life.

Gita May is Professor of French at Columbia University. She has published extensively on the French Enlightenment, eighteenth century aesthetics, the novel and autobiography, and women in literature, history, and the arts.

Candide and Other Tales

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Candide and Related Texts

This lively new translation of Voltaire’s satiric masterpiece is accompanied by a short selection of writings of each of the most prominent optimists to whom Voltaire was responding Leibniz, Bolingbroke, Shaftesbury, Pope, Wolff, Rousseau, and Malebranche and thus offers a better perspective of the intellectual context in which Candide was written, and of its place in Enlightenment though, than does any other edition.

Candide, Zadig

France’s most distinguished man of letters This essential collection from the genius Voltaire includes his masterpiece and best known work Candide, as well as his novel Zadig and fourteen short stories: Micromegas, The World as It Is, Memnon, Bababec and the Fakirs, History of Scarmentado s Travels, Plato s Dream, Account of the Sickness, Confession, Death, and Apparition of the Jesuit Berthier, Story of a Good Brahman, Jeannot and Colin, An Indian Adventure, Ingenuous, The One Eyed Porter, Memory s Adventure, Count Chesterfield s Ears, and Chaplain Goudman.

Candide and Other Stories

Candide is the most famous of Voltaire’s ‘philosophical tales,’ in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. First published in 1759, it was an instant bestseller and has come to be regarded as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. What Candide does for chivalric romance, the other tales in this selection Micromegas, Zadig, The Ingenu, and The White Bull do for science fiction, the Oriental tale, the sentimental novel, and the Old Testament. The most extensive one volume selection currently available, this new edition includes a new verse translation of the story Voltaire based on Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Tale: What Pleases the Ladies and opens with a revised introduction that reflects recent critical debates, including a new section on Candide. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up to date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Philosophical Dictionary

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