Candide and Other Works

Candide and Other Works

by Voltaire and Keith Carabine
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 15/07/2015

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With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent


Candide (1759) is a bright, colourful literary firework display of a novella. With sparkling wit and biting humour, Voltaire hits several targets with fierce and comic satire: organised religion, the overweening pride of aristocrats, merchants' greed, colonial ambition and the hopeless complacency of Leibnizian philosophy that believes 'all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds'. Through this rites of passage story, with his central character, Candide, a naïve and impressionable young man, Voltaire attacks the social ills of his day, which remarkably remain as pertinent now as ever.


Zadig is a tale of love and detection. Edgar Allan Poe was inspired by this story when he created C. Auguste Dupin in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', a story which established the modern detective fiction genre. The Ingenu recounts how a young man raised by Huron Indians discover the ways of Europe. Nanine is a sharp three act comedy concerned with marital dilemmas. In all these works Voltaire manages to combine humour with trenchant satire in a highly entertaining fashion.

ISBN:
9781848705999
9781848705999
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
15-07-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Voltaire

Voltaire (1694 1778) was a French man of letters and a leading figure of the Enlightenment, known for his outspokenness and polemical writings.

The philosophical novellas Candide and Zadig are among his most celebrated works.

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