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    Zadig and L'Ingénu

    Author Francois Voltaire
    Introduction by John Butt
    Translated by John Butt
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    On sale Nov 30, 1978 | 192 Pages | 9780140441260
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    One of Voltaire's earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France
    Zadig/L'IngénuIntroduction
    Biographical Note

    Zadig

    Imprimatur
    Epistle Dedicatory from Sadi to the Sultana Sheraa
    1. Blind in One Eye
    2. The Nose
    3. The Dog and the Horse
    4. Green Eyes
    5. The Contest in Generosity
    6. The Minister
    7. Disputes and Audiences
    8. Jealousy
    9. The Beaten Woman
    10. Slavery
    11. The Funeral Pyre
    12. The Supper Party
    13. The Assignations
    14. The Brigand
    15. The Fisherman
    16. The Cockatrice
    17. The Tournament
    18. The Hermit
    19. The Riddles

    L'Engénu
    (The Child of Nature)

    1. How the Prior of Our Lady of the Mountain and his sister met a Huron Indian
    2. The Child of Nature is recognized by his relatives
    3. The conversion of the Child of Nature
    4. The Child of Nature baptized
    5. The Child of Nature in love
    6. The Child of Nature rushes to his mistress and becomes enraged.
    7. The Child of Nature repels the English
    8. The Child of Nature goes to Court and on the way has supper with some Huguenots
    9. The arrival of the Child of Nature at Versailles, and his reception at Court
    10. The Child of Nature imprisoned in the Bastille with a Jansenist
    11. The Child of Nature develops his talents
    12. The Child of Nature's opinions on plays
    13. The lovely St Yves goes to Versailles
    14. The Child of Nature's intellectual progress
    15. The lovely St Yves resists certain delicate propositions
    16. She consults a Jesuit
    17. Her virtue her downfall
    18. She delivers her lover and a Jansenist
    19. The Child of Nature, the lovely St Yves, and their relatives are reunited
    20. The death of the lovely St Yves, and its consequences

    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.

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    One of Voltaire's earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France

    Table of Contents

    Zadig/L'IngénuIntroduction
    Biographical Note

    Zadig

    Imprimatur
    Epistle Dedicatory from Sadi to the Sultana Sheraa
    1. Blind in One Eye
    2. The Nose
    3. The Dog and the Horse
    4. Green Eyes
    5. The Contest in Generosity
    6. The Minister
    7. Disputes and Audiences
    8. Jealousy
    9. The Beaten Woman
    10. Slavery
    11. The Funeral Pyre
    12. The Supper Party
    13. The Assignations
    14. The Brigand
    15. The Fisherman
    16. The Cockatrice
    17. The Tournament
    18. The Hermit
    19. The Riddles

    L'Engénu
    (The Child of Nature)

    1. How the Prior of Our Lady of the Mountain and his sister met a Huron Indian
    2. The Child of Nature is recognized by his relatives
    3. The conversion of the Child of Nature
    4. The Child of Nature baptized
    5. The Child of Nature in love
    6. The Child of Nature rushes to his mistress and becomes enraged.
    7. The Child of Nature repels the English
    8. The Child of Nature goes to Court and on the way has supper with some Huguenots
    9. The arrival of the Child of Nature at Versailles, and his reception at Court
    10. The Child of Nature imprisoned in the Bastille with a Jansenist
    11. The Child of Nature develops his talents
    12. The Child of Nature's opinions on plays
    13. The lovely St Yves goes to Versailles
    14. The Child of Nature's intellectual progress
    15. The lovely St Yves resists certain delicate propositions
    16. She consults a Jesuit
    17. Her virtue her downfall
    18. She delivers her lover and a Jansenist
    19. The Child of Nature, the lovely St Yves, and their relatives are reunited
    20. The death of the lovely St Yves, and its consequences

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    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.

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