Voltaire

Collects the most significant writings of Voltaire, preceded by a brief biography of the author, a bibliography of his works, and a chronology.

Presents the eighteenth-century social satire of a gentle and kind man who is thrashed by fate and his fellow man an despite enormous evidence to the contrary, attempts to believe that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds; presented in French with English definitions of 700 French words.

The story of a simple, optimistic man whose travels take him from one disaster to another.