Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories
by:
Voltaire (author)
Voltaire (author)
Francois Voltarie (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451518859 (0451518853)
Publish date: May 1st 1961
Publisher: Signet Classics
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...