Candide and Other Works

With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent
Voltaire is one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century. He fought against relig ...

With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent
Voltaire is one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century. He fought against religious persecution, bigotry and injustice throughout his life, and is one of the thinkers who prepared the way for the French Revolution. This volume contains: Zadig (1748), the story of a young man who becomes king of Babylon; Candide (1759), Voltaire's most famous tale of all; and (in a new translation by Editor James Fowler) The Ingenu (1767), in which the hero, raised by Huron Indians, discover