The voice of the Age of Reason remarks on English religion and politics during the early 18th century: Quakers, Church of England, Presbyterians, Anti-Trinitarians, Parliament, government, commerce, plus essays on Locke, Descartes, and Newton. Voltaire's observations on English tolerance sounded a revolutionary note among European readers that resonated long after the book's first publication.

Philosophical Letters: Voltaire

Politics & Social Sciences

VOLTAIRE

Dilworth, Ernest

Philosophy

Pearson College Div

The Great Philosophers is a series of anthologies on individual philosophers. Each volume begins with an authoritative introductory essay by the editor on the life and work of the philosopher, followed by selected key works and a comprehensive bibliography. Paul Edwards is general editor of "The Great Philosophers" as well as "Philosophical Topics," another new Macmillan series. He is the author of The Logic of Moral Discourse, Heidegger and Death, and numerous articles in philosophical periodicals. His four-part series, "The Case against Reincarnation," was recently awarded the Selma Forkosch Prize. He is co-editor (with Arthur Pap) of A Modern Introduction to Philosophy and editor in chief of The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. In 1979 Columbia University awarded him the Nicholas Murray Butler Silver Medal for distinguished contributions to philosophy.

Voltaire: Selections (Great Philosophers) (English and French Edition)

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Satirizing the optimistic belief that "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds," Voltaire's tale finds Candide and his tutor Dr. Pangloss enduring a long series of misadventures and calamities

Candide (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Selections from Voltaire;: With explanatory comment upon his life and works, (French Edition)

Candide and Other Writings (Modern Library College Editions Series)

Mcgraw-Hill College

Candide

PRENTICE/HALL

Penguin Book of French Short Stories

COLETTE

Robbe-Grillet

BALZAC

SADE

CAMUS

Maupassant

Vigny

Anatole, France

Aymé

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Includes Part One of Candide; three stories; selections from The Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake, and other works; and thirty-five letters.

The Portable Voltaire (Portable Library)

Francois Maria Arouet De Voltaire

Humor & Satire

Penguin Publishing Group

One of Voltaire's earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France

Zadig and L'Ingénu (Penguin Classics)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Penguin Classics

Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his various companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an outrageous series of disasters befall them - earthquakes, syphilis, a brush with the Inquisition, murder - sorely testing the young hero's optimism.

Classics

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