The Collected Works of Voltaire
Satire, Reason, and the Enlightenment Struggle for Tolerance, Civil Liberty, and Intellectual IndependenceBy Voltaire
Length210h 1m
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The Collected Works of Voltaire gathers the writings of one of the Enlightenment's most versatile and contentious voices: philosophical tales, historical studies, essays, poetry, drama, correspondence, and polemical interventions. Across genres, Voltaire combines lucid, agile prose with irony, satire, and a persistent demand that inherited authority submit to reason and evidence. Works such as *Candide*, the *Philosophical Letters*, and the *Treatise on Tolerance* reveal a characteristic method: expose dogmatism through wit, then redirect the reader toward intellectual freedom, religious pluralism, legal reform, and humane judgment. Read as a whole, the collection situates his literary experimentation within the eighteenth-century struggle against censorship, clerical absolutism, and arbitrary power, while also displaying the tensions in his thought, including elitism and cultural prejudice. François-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire (1694–1778), wrote as poet, historian, public intellectual, and activist. Imprisonment in the Bastille, exile in England, conflict with religious and political authorities, and engagement with scientific and philosophical currents shaped his distrust of absolutism and his commitment to civil liberties. His extensive correspondence and international associations made him a central participant in the Republic of Letters. This collection is recommended to readers seeking both an introduction to Voltaire and a sustained encounter with Enlightenment culture. It rewards close reading, historical contextualization, and comparison across genres, revealing how literary brilliance can become an instrument of criticism, reform, and moral inquiry.
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Table of contents
1The Lays of Marie de France (Annotated)
2Novels
3CANDIDE: The Optimist
4PART I.
5CHAPTER I. HOW CANDIDE WAS BROUGHT UP IN A MAGNIFICENT CASTLE AND HOW HE WAS DRIVEN THENCE.
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6CHAPTER II. WHAT BEFELL CANDIDE AMONG THE BULGARIANS.
7CHAPTER III. HOW CANDIDE ESCAPED FROM THE BULGARIANS, AND WHAT BEFELL HIM AFTERWARDS.
8CHAPTER IV. HOW CANDIDE FOUND HIS OLD MASTER PANGLOSS AGAIN AND WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM.
9CHAPTER V. A TEMPEST, A SHIPWRECK, AN EARTHQUAKE; AND WHAT ELSE BEFELL DR. PANGLOSS, CANDIDE, AND JAMES THE ANABAPTIST.
10CHAPTER VI. HOW THE PORTUGUESE MADE A SUPERB AUTO-DA-FÉ TO PREVENT ANY FUTURE EARTHQUAKES, AND HOW CANDIDE UNDERWENT PUBLIC FLAGELLATION.
11CHAPTER VII. HOW THE OLD WOMAN TOOK CARE OF CANDIDE, AND HOW HE FOUND THE OBJECT OF HIS LOVE.
12CHAPTER VIII. CUNEGUND’S STORY.
13CHAPTER IX. WHAT HAPPENED TO CUNEGUND, CANDIDE, THE GRAND INQUISITOR, AND THE JEW.
14CHAPTER X. IN WHAT DISTRESS CANDIDE, CUNEGUND, AND THE OLD WOMAN ARRIVE AT CADIZ; AND OF THEIR EMBARKATION.
15CHAPTER XI. THE HISTORY OF THE OLD WOMAN.
16CHAPTER XII. THE ADVENTURES OF THE OLD WOMAN CONTINUED.
17CHAPTER XIII. HOW CANDIDE WAS OBLIGED TO LEAVE THE FAIR CUNEGUND AND THE OLD WOMAN.
18CHAPTER XIV. THE RECEPTION CANDIDE AND CACAMBO MET WITH AMONG THE JESUITS IN PARAGUAY.
19CHAPTER XV. HOW CANDIDE KILLED THE BROTHER OF HIS DEAR CUNEGUND.
20CHAPTER XVI. WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR TWO TRAVELLERS WITH TWO GIRLS, TWO MONKEYS, AND THE SAVAGES, CALLED OREILLONS.
21CHAPTER XVII. CANDIDE AND HIS VALET ARRIVE IN THE COUNTRY OF EL DORADO — WHAT THEY SAW THERE.
22CHAPTER XVIII. WHAT THEY SAW IN THE COUNTRY OF EL DORADO.
23CHAPTER XIX. WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM AT SURINAM, AND HOW CANDIDE BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH MARTIN.
24CHAPTER XX. WHAT BEFELL CANDIDE AND MARTIN ON THEIR PASSAGE.
25CHAPTER XXI. CANDIDE AND MARTIN, WHILE THUS REASONING WITH EACH OTHER, DRAW NEAR TO THE COAST OF FRANCE.
26CHAPTER XXII. WHAT HAPPENED TO CANDIDE AND MARTIN IN FRANCE.
27CHAPTER XXIII. CANDIDE AND MARTIN TOUCH UPON THE ENGLISH COAST — WHAT THEY SEE THERE.
28CHAPTER XXIV. OF PACQUETTE AND FRIAR GIROFLÉE.
29CHAPTER XXV. CANDIDE AND MARTIN PAY A VISIT TO SEIGNOR POCOCURANTÉ, A NOBLE VENETIAN.
30CHAPTER XXVI. CANDIDE AND MARTIN SUP WITH SIX SHARPERS — WHO THEY WERE.
31CHAPTER XXVII. CANDIDE’S VOYAGE TO CONSTANTINOPLE.
32CHAPTER XXVIII. WHAT BEFELL CANDIDE, CUNEGUND, PANGLOSS, MARTIN, ETC.
33CHAPTER XXIX. IN WHAT MANNER CANDIDE FOUND MISS CUNEGUND AND THE OLD WOMAN AGAIN.
34CHAPTER XXX. CONCLUSION.
35PART II.
36CHAPTER I. HOW CANDIDE QUITTED HIS COMPANIONS, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM.
37CHAPTER II. WHAT BEFELL CANDIDE IN THIS HOUSE — HOW HE GOT OUT OF IT.
38CHAPTER III. CANDIDE’S RECEPTION AT COURT AND WHAT FOLLOWED.
39CHAPTER IV. FRESH FAVORS CONFERRED ON CANDIDE; HIS GREAT ADVANCEMENT.
40CHAPTER V. HOW CANDIDE BECAME A VERY GREAT MAN, AND YET WAS NOT CONTENTED.
41CHAPTER VI. THE PLEASURES OF CANDIDE.
42CHAPTER VII. THE HISTORY OF ZIRZA.
43CHAPTER VIII. CANDIDE’S DISGUSTS — AN UNEXPECTED MEETING.
44CHAPTER IX. CANDIDE’S DISGRACES, TRAVELS, AND ADVENTURES.
45CHAPTER X. CANDIDE AND PANGLOSS ARRIVE AT THE PROPONTIS — WHAT THEY SAW THERE — WHAT BECAME OF THEM.
46CHAPTER XI. CANDIDE CONTINUES HIS TRAVELS.
47CHAPTER XII. CANDIDE STILL CONTINUES HIS TRAVELS — NEW ADVENTURES.
48CHAPTER XIII. THE HISTORY OF ZENOIDA — HOW CANDIDE FELL IN LOVE WITH HER.
49CHAPTER XIV. CONTINUATION OF THE LOVES OF CANDIDE.
50CHAPTER XV. THE ARRIVAL OF WOLHALL — A JOURNEY TO COPENHAGEN.
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