Candide and Other Romances.

A finely bound edition of Voltaire's Candide and Other Romances, translated by Richard Aldington and handsomely illustrated by Norman Tealby.

A collection of eight romances by Voltaire, including his most famous novella Candide, a picaresque satire considered by many the author's magnum opus.

Voltaire was a versatile and prolific French Enlightenment writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties and was at constant risk from the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. His polemics witheringly satirised intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.