Libros de Voltaire

Zadig

• Zadig is a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. Voltaire did not attempt historical accuracy with this book. Many of the problems Zadig faces are thinly disguised references to social and political problems of Voltaire’s own day. Zadig is...

Catiline

• In his preface to this play Voltaire says: "The learned will not here meet with a faithful narrative of Catilines conspiracy: a tragedy, they very well know, is not a history, but they will see a true picture of the manners of those times: all that...

Alzire

• Alzire first appeared on the stage in 1736 to great acclaim and success. Alzire is set Lima, Peru, at the time of the Spanish conquest. Don Gusman, a Spanish grandee, has just succeeded his father, Don Alvarez, in the Governorship of Peru. The rule of...

Nanine

• This Comedy is called in the French Nanine, ou le Préjugé Vaincu (Nanine, or Prejudice Overcome). It is written, as we are told in the title-page, in verses of ten syllables. The absurdity of comedies in rhyme I have already remarked. The...

Candide

• Candide, a pampered nobleman, is suddenly thrust out of his sheltered life into a cold uncaring world that does not care about his gentle upbringing. Candide witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world and must depend on his wits and quick acti...

Mahomet

• This powerful work was read by Voltaire to Frederick of Prussia in 1740, to the king’s great delight. The play was withdrawn after the fourth representation, under pressure of Church authorities who professed to see in it a bloody satire...

Mariamne

• It is enough: the power of Salome, By all acknowledged, and by all obeyed, On its firm basis stands immovable: I fled to Azor, with the lightning’s speed, Even from Samaria’s plain to Jordan’s spring,...

The Orphan Of China

• The Chinese tragedy, which they call "The Orphan," was taken out of an immense collection of the theatrical performances of that nation, which has cultivated this art for about three thousand years before it was invented by the Greeks, the art...

Amelia

• This tragedy is founded on historical truth. A duke of Brittany, in the year 1387, commanded the lord of Bavalan to assassinate the constable of Clisson: Bavalan, the day after, told the duke it was done: the duke becoming sensible of the horror of his...

Treatise On Toleration

• One of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought, a French..

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

• The Dictionnaire philosophique (Philosophical Dictionary) is an encyclopedic dictionary published..

Cândido Ou O Optimismo

Candide (illustrated By Adrien Moreau With Introductions By Philip Littell And J. M. Wheeler)

• 122 páginas
• "Candide" is Voltaire's most famous work, a satirical masterpiece, which was first published in 1759. It is the story of its central character, the titular Candide, who lives a sheltered comfortable life and has been indoctrinated into the...

Candide

• The Norton Critical Edition also includes - A full introduction by Nicholas Cronk - Six background..

Candide

• Voltaire’s masterpiece of satire Candide was written between July and December 1758 and published simultaneously in Geneva, Paris and Amsterdam in January 1759. The events in the book unlike most works of fiction are astutely based on...

Candide And Other Stories

• 352 páginas
• Candide is the most famous of Voltaire's 'philosophical tales', in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. This edition includes four other prose tales - Micromegas, Zadig, The Ingenu, and The White Bull - and...

Candide By Voltaire

• Candide by Voltaire. By Voltaire. FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATION. Introduction by Philip..

Candide (wisehouse Classics - With Illustrations By Jean-michel Moreau)

• "CANDIDE, OU LOPTIMISME" is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with...

über Die Toleranz

• 200 páginas

Zadig: Ou La Destinee

• Cette oeuvre est inspiree d'un conte persan intitule Voyages et aventures des trois princes de..