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Article: Candide and Related Texts. (Book Reviews).
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- Utopian Studies
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- March 22, 2001
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Voltaire. Candide and Related Texts.
Translated, with an introduction, by David Wootton. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000. xliv + 146 pp. $5.95.
IN ADDITION TO CANDIDE, this little volume includes two earlier philosophical tales, "The History of the Travels of Scarmentado" and "The Comforter Comforted," the "Poem on the Lisbon Disaster," the article "Well (All is)" from the Philosophical Dictionary, a short feminist piece entitled "Wives Obey Your Husbands," and excerpts from Voltaire's correspondence, as well as selections from G. Leibniz, from A. Pope's Essay on Man, and a letter from J.-J. Rousseau to Voltaire on the topic of ...