书名：Candide Zadig and Selected Stories老实人和查第格等伏尔泰故事集

作者：Francois Voltaire伏尔泰
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2009
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451531155
商品尺寸：10.8 x 2.7 x 17.1 cm
包装：简装
页数：400 （以实物为准）
Candide Zadig and Selected Stories《老实人和查第格等伏尔泰故事集》精选了法国著名思想家、作家伏尔泰的重要作品，包括Candide《老实人》（憨第德）、Zadig《查第格》两部经典作品及另外十四部短篇小说，如Micromegas《微型巨人》、Plato’s Dream《柏拉图之梦》等。

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This essential collection from the genius Voltaire includes his masterpiece and best-known work Candide, as well as his novel Zadig and fourteen short stories: “Micromegas,” “The World as It Is,” “Memnon,” “Bababec and the Fakirs,” “History of Scarmentado’s Travels,” “Plato’s Dream,” “Account of the Sickness, Confession, Death, and Apparition of the Jesuit Berthier,” “Story of a Good Brahman,” “Jeannot and Colin,” “An Indian Adventure,” “Ingenuous,” “The One-Eyed Porter,” “Memory’s Adventure,” “Count Chesterfield’s Ears,” and “Chaplain Goudman.”
伏尔泰，法国启蒙思想家、文学家、哲学家、著名学者、作家。伏尔泰是十八世纪法国资产阶级启蒙运动的泰斗，被誉为“法兰西思想之王”、“法兰西最优秀的诗人”、“欧洲的良心”。主张开明的君主政治，强调自由和平等。代表作《哲学通信》《形而上学论》《路易十四时代》《老实人》等。

François-Marie Arouet, writing under the pseudonym Voltaire, was born in 1694 into a Parisian bourgeois family. Educated by Jesuits, he was an excellent pupil but one quickly enraged by dogma. An early rift with his father—who wished him to study law—led to his choice of letters as a career. Insinuating himself into court circles, he became notorious for lampoons on leading notables and was twice imprisoned in the Bastille.
By his mid-thirties his literary activities precipitated a four-year exile in England where he won the praise of Swift and Pope for his political tracts. His publication, three years later in France, of Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais (1733)—an attack on French Church and State—forced him to flee again. For twenty years Voltaire lived chiefly away from Paris. In this, his most prolific period, he wrote such satirical tales as “Zadig” (1747) and “Candide” (1759). His old age at Ferney, outside Geneva, was made bright by his adopted daughter, “Belle et Bonne,” and marked by his intercessions in behalf of victims of political injustice. Sharp-witted and lean in his white wig, impatient with all appropriate rituals, he died in Paris in 1778—the foremost French author of his day.
Introduction

Candide
Zadig
Micromegas
The World as It Is
Memnon
Bababec and the Fakirs
History of Scarmentado’s Travels
Plato’s Dream
Account of the Sickness , Confession, Death, and Apparition of the Jesuit Berthier
Story of a Good Brahman
Jeannot and Colin
An Indian Adventure
Ingenuous
The One-Eyed Porter
Memory’s Adventure
Count Chesterfield’s Ears and Chaplain Goudman
Notes and Glossary
Selected Bibliography

In pursuing this critique, Voltaire and his fellow philosophers ran the risk of provoking Church and government officials. It’s not that they were commonly preaching violent overthrow of the French monarchy: hut as advocates of reform, they often undermined portions of a hierarchical structure with little tolerance for oppositional commentary. Voltaire, in particular, was plagued by fears of censorship and persecution. For this reason, he developed elaborate strategies to publish his works while minimEthg official control. Most often, he had his works printed outside France, in places like Amsterdam or Geneva, where greater religious and intellectual freedom prevailed; frequently, he issued them anonymously; sometimes he sought protection from powerful individuals. During the final stages of his life, Voltaire deployed these and other techniques with great dexterity, creating a steady flow of polemical works to support his campaign against I’Infâme—his inclusive word designating intolerance and closed-mindedness, particularly in the religious sphere. In attempting to reach an expanding body of European readers, he increasingly used nontraditional literary forms, favoring brevity and satirical humor.