This essential collection from the genius Voltaire includes his masterpiece and best-known work “Candide” as well as his novel “Zadig” and 14 short stories. Revised reissue.

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."


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Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) (1694—1778) was one of the key thinkers of the European Enlightenment. Of his many works, “Candide” remains the most popular.
Peter Constantine was awarded the 1998 PEN Translation Award for “Six Early Stories ”by Thomas Mann and the 1999 National Translation Award for “The Undiscovered Chekhov: Forty-three New Stories.” Widely acclaimed for his recent translation of the complete works of Isaac Babel, he also translated Gogol's “Taras Bulba” and Tolstoy's “The Cossacks ”for the Modern Library. His translations of fiction and poetry have appeared in many pu