Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories (Signet Classics)
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
0451528093
Publish date: March 1st 2001
Publisher: Signet Classics
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Humor,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Philosophy,
College,
France,
Short Stories,
18th Century
This book is a collection of some of Voltaire's fictional stories, in which he criticizes many commonly held views in his day. Religion, philosophy, and politics were all attacked, as nothing was sacred from Voltaire's semi-comedic criticism. The criticisms he makes of his contemporary society are u...