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1) Candide, Zadig, and selected stories

Author

Voltaire

Language

English

2) Candide and other stories

Author

Voltaire

Series

Everyman's library
World's classics volume 611

Language

English

3) Zadig: , L'ingénu

Author

Voltaire

Series

Penguin classics

Pub. Date

1964.

Language

English

4) Candide: and other writings

Author

Voltaire

Series

Modern library of the world's best books volume 47

Pub. Date

[1956]

Language

English

5) Candide; or, Optimism: a new translation, backgrounds, criticism

Author

Voltaire

Series

Norton critical edition

Pub. Date

[1966]

Edition

[First edition].

Language

English

6) Candide, or, Optimism: a fresh translation, backgrounds, criticism

Author

Voltaire

Series

Norton critical edition

Pub. Date

[1991]

Edition

Second edition.

Language

English

7) The best known works of Voltaire: the complete romances, including Candide, The philosophy of history, The ignorant philosopher, Dialogues and Philosophic criticisms

Author

Voltaire

Pub. Date

[1940]

Language

English

8) The portable Voltaire

Author

Voltaire

Series

Viking portable library volume 41

Pub. Date

1949.

Language

English

9) Candide, Zadig, Jeannot et Colin

Author

Voltaire

Pub. Date

1930.

Language

English

10) Voltaire's Candide, Zadig and selected stories

Author

Voltaire

Pub. Date

1961.

Language

English

11) The best known works of Voltaire: the complete romances, including Candide, and The ignorant philosopher

Author

Voltaire

Pub. Date

[1940?]

Language

English

12) Select letters

Author

Voltaire

Pub. Date

1963

Language

English

13) A pocket philosophical dictionary

Author

Voltaire

Series

Oxford world's classics

Pub. Date

2011.

Language

English

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Here is the only available English translation of one of the landmarks of European Enlightenment thought, Voltaire's 1764 edition of A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary. Highly entertaining and still highly relevant, the "dictionary" actually consists of a sequence of short essays, arranged in alphabetical order, covering everything from Apocalypse and Atheism to Tolerance and Tyranny. The unifying thread of these articles is Voltaire's vitriolic critique...

14) Gulliver's travels

Author

Swift, Jonathan

Series

Oxford world's classics
Rainbow classics
Riverside editions
New York Post family classics library volume 3
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Language

English

Appears on these lists

JEF - Classic Literature
JEF - Irish Authors (March)

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print

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Gulliver sees life from many different perspectives during the course of his exciting voyages around the world. In Lilliput he is a giant among a race of little people only six inches high; in Brobdingnag he himself seems tiny compared to the giant inhabitants; and in the country of the Houyhnhnms, horses rule and the human creatures there have the status of animals. Life back in England seems very ordinary after all that he has seen.