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. This edition includes four other prose tales - Micromegas, ...

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 Ingnu, and The White Bull - and a verse tale based on Chaucer`s The Wife of Bath`s Tale,: What Pleases the Ladies. `If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?` Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this `best of all possible worlds` - the Old and the New - before finally accepting that hi