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Tables of Contents for Candide and Related Texts
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
viii
Chronology
xxxiv
Map
xxxvii
Further Reading
xxxviii
A Note on the Texts
xli
Notes on the Translation
xlii
Candide, or Optimism (1759, revised 1761)
1
83
Chapter Twenty-Two: The first version
79
2
Voltaire's letter of 1 April 1759 to the Journal encyclopedique
81
3
Related Texts
Before Voltaire
84
11
Leibniz, ``Metaphysics Summarized'' (c. 1697)
84
2
Pope, Essay on Man (1733-34) [selections]
86
9
The Lisbon Earthquake: Rousseau versus Voltaire
95
28
Preface to the ``Poem on the Lisbon Disaster'' (1756)
95
4
``Poem on the Lisbon Disaster''
99
9
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ``Letter to Voltaire on Optimism,'' 18 August 1756
108
15
Towards Candide
123
9
``The History of the Travels of Scarmentado'' (1756)
123
7
``The Comforter Comforted'' (1756)
130
2
Voltaire's Correspondence
132
5
Letter to Jean-Robert Tronchin, 24 November [1755]
132
1
Letter to Francois-Louis Allamand, 16 December 1755
132
1
Letter to Elie Bertrand, 18 February 1756
133
1
Letter to Marie Ursule de Klinglin, Countess of Lutzelbourg, 4 June [1757]
134
1
Letter to Louisa Dorothea, Duchess of Saxe-Gotha, 24 June [1757]
135
1
Letter [in English] to George Keith, 4 October [November] 1758
136
1
After Candide
137
6
``Well (All is)'' (Portable Philosophical Dictionary, 1764)
137
6
Voltaire's Feminism
143
``Wives Obey Your Husbands'' (1765)
143