Voltaire

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…

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4


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In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…

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…

Short Science Fiction Collection 006


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Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

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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Micromegas es un cuento filos

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…

International Short Stories Volume 3: French Stories


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The third book of a three volume anthology of international short stories, we now turn to French stories. Authors include Honoré de B…

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…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 022


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A collection of nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen …

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…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 003


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A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…

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…

Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose


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A collection of prose and poetry written principally in the 18th Century. These works of world literature are written in the English languag…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044


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Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include wives, widows, and women scorned--…

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…

Multilingual Short Works Collection 012


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This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). Al…

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…

Multilingual Short Story Collection 001


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In LibriVox's first Multilingual Short Story Collection, LibriVox members read 15 short works of fiction in languages other than English. Th…

Multilingual Short Works Collection 011


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This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). Al…

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…