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Candide, Zadig and selected stories  Cover Image Book Book

Candide, Zadig and selected stories / Voltaire ; translated by Daniel [sic] M. Frame ; with an introduction by John Iverson and a new afterword by Thaisa Frank.

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  • ISBN: 9780451531155 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0451531159 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xvi, 376 p. ; 18 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Signet Classics, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Stories originally published 1747-1775.
Title page incorrectly lists translator Donald Frame as Daniel Frame.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-376).
Formatted Contents Note:
Candide -- Zadig -- Micromegas -- The world as it is -- Memnon -- Bababec and the fakirs -- History of Scarmentado's travels -- Plato's dream -- Account of the sickness, confession, death, and apparition of the Jesuit Berthier -- Story of a good Brahmin -- Jeannot and Colin -- An Indian adventure -- Ingenuous -- The one-eyed porter -- Memory's adventure -- Count Chesterfield's ears and Chaplain Goudman.
Subject: Voltaire, 1694-1778 > Translations into English.
Genre: Satire.


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