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Candide ou L'optimisme

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Candide vivait paisible et innocent chez le baron de Thunder-ten-tronckh, en Westphalie. Dans son château, le précepteur Panglo…

Candide (version 2)

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Candide is a relentless, brutal assault on government, society, religion, education, and, above all, optimism. Dr. Pangloss teaches his youn…

Candide

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Candide, ou l’Optimisme, (“Candide, or Optimism”) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire never ope…

Kandid oder Die beste Welt

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Der satirische Roman "Kandid oder die beste Welt" (Candide ou l'optimisme) erzaehlt die abenteuerliche Geschichte des naiven Jueng…

Zadig or the Book of Fate

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Zadig, ou La Destinée, ("Zadig, or The Book of Fate") (1747) is a famous novel written by the French Enlightenment philosop…

Zadig ou la destinée

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Cette oeuvre parait quelques mois après la découverte de la nébuleuse de l'Aigle qui en est manifestement l'inspiration…

Micromegas

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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

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Beccaria's treatise On Crimes and Punishments, which condemns disproportionate and irrational penalties in general as well as torture and th…

Candide (version 3)

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Ever since 1759, when Voltaire wrote "Candide" in ridicule of the notion that this is the best of all possible worlds, this world …

Historia De Un Buen Brahmín

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En el curso de mis viajes tropecé con un viejo brahmín, hombre de muy buen juicio, lleno de ingenio y muy sabio; además…

The Sincere Huron (L'Ingénu)

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L'Ingénu is a satirical novella by the French writer Voltaire, published in 1767. It tells the story of a Huron Indian transported to…

Letters on England

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Voltaire spent his early thirties in England as an exile following the Bastille imprisonment for his satires. With passionate admiration, he…

Una aventura india

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Pitágoras, estando en la India, aprendió, como saben todos, en la escuela de los gimnosofistas la lengua de los animales y la…

Historia de un buen Brama

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En mis viajes encontré un brama anciano, sujeto muy cuerdo, instruido y discreto, y con esto rico, cosa que le hacia más cuerd…

Zadig or The Book of Fate (Version 2)

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"there is no Evil under the Sun, but some Good proceeds from it:" -- this quote from this novel sums it up. One of Voltaire's most…