Candide and Other Writings (Hardcover Library Edition)

Bringing the Best of Voltaire's together. 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 work's includes Micromegas Socrates (Play) Dialogue between a Brahmin and a Jesuit On Necessity and Free-will and the General Concatenation of Causes and Effects (Play) The Blind as Judges of Color The Clergyman and his Soul A Conversation with a Chinese Memnon the Philosopher An Adventure in India Bababec & The Blind as Judges of Color.