Candide a pampered nobleman is suddenly thrust out of his sheltered life into a cold uncaring world that does not care about his gentle upbringing. Candide witnesses and experiences great…

Orestes was produced in 1750 an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine Voltaire has the following passage…

This tragedy was produced in 1730. It marks Voltaire's spirit of daring in treating a subject from which Shakespeare shrank as perhaps too painful for representation. When revived during the…

You request me, sir, to give you some account of our worthy friend and his singular son. The leisure that the retirement of Lord Peterborough now affords me, places it…

Included in this omnibus edition are 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…

Fate would make us wretched here But hope shall dry up every tear; In sorrow he shall give us rest And make us even in anguish blest: Love shall preserve…

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…

Socrates is a play in three acts about Socrates and the events of his trial and eventual death. Satirical in nature it takes aim at government authority and organized religion…