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Index
Cover
Copyright Page
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
Translator’s Note and Acknowledgements
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Voltaire
Candide and Other Stories
CANDIDE
CHAPTER 1: How Candide was brought up in a beautiful castle, and how he was kicked out of the same
CHAPTER 2: What became of Candide among the Bulgars
CHAPTER 3: How Candide escaped from the Bulgars and what became of him
CHAPTER 4: How Candide chanced upon his old philosophy tutor, Dr Pangloss, and what came of it
CHAPTER 5: Storm, shipwreck, earthquake, and what became of Dr Pangloss, Candide, and Jacques the Anabaptist
CHAPTER 6: How they had a splendid auto-da-fé to prevent earthquakes, and how Candide was flogged
CHAPTER 7: How an old woman took care of Candide, and how he was reunited with the one he loved
CHAPTER 8: Cunégonde’s story
CHAPTER 9: What became of Cunégonde, Candide, the Grand Inquisitor, and a Jew
CHAPTER 10: In what distress Candide, Cunégonde, and the old woman arrived in Cadiz, and of their embarkation
CHAPTER 11: The old woman’s story
CHAPTER 12: The continuing story of the old woman’s misfortunes
CHAPTER 13: How Candide was obliged to part from fair Cunégonde and the old woman
CHAPTER 14: How Candide and Cacambo were received by the Jesuits of Paraguay
CHAPTER 15: How Candide killed the brother of his dear Cunégonde
CHAPTER 16: What became of the two travellers with two girls, two monkeys, and the savages called the Lobeiros
CHAPTER 17: The arrival of Candide and his manservant in Eldorado, and what they saw there
CHAPTER 18: What they saw in the land of Eldorado
CHAPTER 19: What happened to them in Surinam and how Candide met Martin
CHAPTER 20: What happened to Candide and Martin at sea
CHAPTER 21: Candide and Martin approach the French coast and reason together
CHAPTER 22: What happened to Candide and Martin in France
CHAPTER 23: Candide and Martin proceed to the shores of England; what they see there
CHAPTER 24: Of Paquette and Brother Giroflée
CHAPTER 25: The visit to Signor Pococurante, a Venetian nobleman
CHAPTER 26: Of a supper that Candide and Martin ate in the company of six strangers, and who they were
CHAPTER 27: Candide’s journey to Constantinople
CHAPTER 28: What happened to Candide, Cunégonde, Pangloss, Martin, and co.
CHAPTER 29: How Candide was reunited with Cunégonde and the old woman
CHAPTER 30: Conclusion
MICROMEGAS
CHAPTER 1: The journey of a worldly inhabitant of the star Sirius to the planet Saturn
CHAPTER 2: The conversation between the inhabitant of Sirius and that of Saturn
CHAPTER 3: The journey of two inhabitants of Sirius and Saturn
CHAPTER 4: What happens to them on the globe of Earth
CHAPTER 5: What the two travellers observed and how they reasoned
CHAPTER 6: How they fare with humans
CHAPTER 7: Conversation with the humans
ZADIG
An Epistle Dedicatory from Sadi to Sultana Sheraa
CHAPTER 1: The man with one eye
CHAPTER 2: The nose
CHAPTER 3: The dog and the horse
CHAPTER 4: The Man of Envy
CHAPTER 5: Generosity
CHAPTER 6: The minister
CHAPTER 7: Disputes and audiences
CHAPTER 8: Fealousy
CHAPTER 9: The battered woman
CHAPTER 10: Slavery
CHAPTER 11: The funeral-pyre
CHAPTER 12: : The supper party
CHAPTER 13: Assignations
CHAPTER 14: The brigand
CHAPTER 15: The fisherman
CHAPTER 16: The basilisk
CHAPTER 17: The tournament
CHAPTER 18: The hermit
CHAPTER 19: The riddles
APPENDIX: The dance
WHAT PLEASES THE LADIES
THE INGENU
CHAPTER 1: How the Prior of Our Lady of the Mountain and his good sister met a Huron
CHAPTER 2: The Huron, known as the Ingenu, is recognized by his family
CHAPTER 3: The Huron, known as the Ingenu, is converted
CHAPTER 4: The Ingenu is baptized
CHAPTER 5: The Ingenu in love
CHAPTER 6: The Ingenu flies to the arms of his sweetheart and into a rage
CHAPTER 7: The Ingenu repels the English
CHAPTER 8: The Ingenu goes to court. He sups with Huguenots on the way
CHAPTER 9: The arrival of the Ingenu at Versailles. His reception at court
CHAPTER 10: The Ingenu imprisoned in the Bastille with a Jansenist
CHAPTER 11: How the Ingenu develops his talents
CHAPTER 12: What the Ingenu thinks about plays
CHAPTER 13: The fair Saint-Yves goes to Versailles
CHAPTER 14: The Ingenu’s intellectual progress
CHAPTER 15: Fair Saint-Yves resists some propositions of a delicate kind
CHAPTER 16: She consults a Jesuit
CHAPTER 17: She succumbs out of virtue
CHAPTER 18: She delivers her lover and a Jansenist
CHAPTER 19: The Ingenu, the fair Saint-Yves, and their families are reunited
CHAPTER 20: Fair Saint-Yves dies, and what comes of it
THE WHITE BULL
CHAPTER 1: How the Princess Amasida met a bull
CHAPTER 2: How wise Mambres, former sorcerer to the Pharaohs, recognized an old woman, and how she recognized him
CHAPTER 3: How the fair Amasida held secret converse with a handsome serpent
CHAPTER 4: How they wanted to sacrifice the ox and exorcize the Princess
CHAPTER 5: How wise Mambres acted wisely
CHAPTER 6: How Mambres met three prophets and gave them a good dinner
CHAPTER 7: The King of Tanis arrives. His daughter and the bull are to be sacrificed
CHAPTER 8: How the serpent told stories to the Princess, to comfort her
CHAPTER 9: How the serpent brought her no comfort
CHAPTER 10: How they wanted to cut off the Princess’s head, and how they did not cut it off
CHAPTER 11: How the Princess married her ox
Explanatory Notes
Footnotes
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