Books by Francois Voltaire

Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) was the universal genius of the Enlightenment: novelist, historian, poet, dramatist, moralist, and critic. In his early career he was briefly committed to the Bastille for his satires and later exiled to England. Candide (1759) is his masterpiece. Michael Wood (introducer) is currently Straut Professor of English at Princeton. His books include Stendhal, America in the Movies, The Magician's Doubts, Franz Kafka, and The Road to Delphi. Theo Cuffe (translator) has also translated a selection of Voltaire's short stories for Penguin, Micromegas and Other Short Fictions.