A representative selection from Voltaire's work which includes excerpts from his plays, philosophical essays, poetry, and novels.
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A representative selection from Voltaire's work which includes excerpts from his plays, philosophical essays, poetry, and novels.
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This collection contains Candide (Part I complete); three of his finest stories; a cross-section of his brilliant letters; more than seventy articles from the unique Philosophical Dictionary; a number of wide-ranging essays; and the long poem-The Lisbon Earthquake.
About the Author
Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) (1694--1778) was one of the key thinkers of the European Enlightenment. Of his many works, "Candide" remains the most popular.
Peter Constantine was awarded the 1998 PEN Translation Award for "Six Early Stories "by Thomas Mann and the 1999 National Translation Award for "The Undiscovered Chekhov: Forty-three New Stories." Widely acclaimed for his recent translation of the complete works of Isaac Babel, he also translated Gogol's "Taras Bulba" and Tolstoy's "The Cossacks "for the Modern Library. His translations of fiction and poetry have appeared in many pu
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