Included in this omnibus edition are Candide Zadig and seventeen of Voltaire's most important plays including Brutus Socrates Alzire Orestes Catiline Semiramis Pandora The Scotch Woman Nanine The Prude Merope Olympia The Orphan of China Mahomet Amelia Rdipus and Mariamne. During his life time Voltaire was far and away the most successful French playwright these are the plays that cemented his popularity and made him a household name during his own lifetime.