Candide: and Related TextsDavid Wootton's scalpel-sharp translation of Candide features a brilliant Introduction, a map of Candide's travels, and a selection of those writings of Voltaire, Leibniz, Pope and Rousseau crucial for fully appreciating this eighteenth-century satiric masterpiece that even today retains its celebrated bite. |
Contents
Candide or Optimism | 1 |
Voltaires Letter of 1 April 1759 to the Journal Encyclopedique | 81 |
Leibniz Metaphysics Summarized | 84 |
Pope Essay on Man 173334 Selections | 86 |
Rousseau versus Voltaire | 95 |
Poem on the Lisbon Disaster | 99 |
JeanJacques Rousseau Letter to Voltaire on Optimism 18 August 1756 | 108 |
The History of the Travels of Scarmentado Written by Himself 1756 | 123 |
Voltaires Correspondence | 132 |
Well All Is from the Portable Philosophical Dictionary 1764 | 137 |
Wives Obey Your Husbands | 143 |
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