The Collected Works of Voltaire E-Book

Voltaire

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 8075

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - estimated 9148 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Candide • Micromegas • 's Philosophical Dictionary • Zadig • Romances • Lettres sur les Anglais • A Philosophical Dictionary • The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia • Socrate • Correspondance de avec le roi de Prusse (Französisch) and King of Prussia Frederick II • Suspended Judgments: Essays on Books and SensationsJohn Cowper Powys • Works of Voltairine de Cleyre • The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of 's Henriad

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Table of Contents

VOLTAIRE'S ROMANCES

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.

COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.

PUBLISHER'S PREFACE

CONTENTS.

TAURUS.

THE WHITE BULL.

CHAPTER I.

HOW THE PRINCESS AMASIDIA MEETS A BULL.

CHAPTER II.

HOW THE WISE MAMBRES, FORMERLY MAGICIAN OF PHAROAH, KNEW AGAIN THE OLD WOMAN, AND WAS KNOWN BY HER.

CHAPTER III.

HOW THE BEAUTIFUL AMASIDIA HAD A SECRET CONVERSATION WITH A BEAUTIFUL SERPENT.

CHAPTER IV.

HOW THEY WANTED TO SACRIFICE THE BULL, AND EXORCISE THE PRINCESS.

DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH. A STRANGE METAMORPHOSIS.

CHAPTER V.

HOW THE WISE MAMBRES CONDUCTED HIMSELF WISELY.

CHAPTER VI.

HOW MAMBRES MET THREE PROPHETS, AND GAVE THEM A GOOD DINNER.

CHAPTER VII.

HOW KING AMASIS WANTED TO GIVE THE WHITE BULL TO BE DEVOURED BY THE FISH OF JONAH, AND DID NOT DO IT.

CHAPTER VIII.

HOW THE SERPENT TOLD STORIES TO THE PRINCESS TO COMFORT HER.

CHAPTER IX.

HOW THE SERPENT DID NOT COMFORT THE PRINCESS.

CHAPTER X.

HOW THEY WANTED TO BEHEAD THE PRINCESS, AND DID NOT DO IT.

CHAPTER XI.

APOTHEOSIS OF THE WHITE BULL. TRIUMPH OF THE WISE MAMBRES. THE SEVEN YEARS PROCLAIMED BY DANIEL ARE ACCOMPLISHED. NEBUCHADNEZZAR RESUMES THE HUMAN FORM, MARRIES THE BEAUTIFUL AMASIDIA, AND ASCENDS THE THRONE OF BABYLON.

ZADIG; OR FATE.

AN ORIENTAL HISTORY.

APPROBATION.

EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO THE SULTANA SERAA.

ZADIG: OR, FATE

I.

THE BLIND OF ONE EYE.

II.

THE NOSE.

III.

THE DOG AND THE HORSE.

IV.

THE ENVIOUS MAN.

V.

THE GENEROUS.

VI.

THE MINISTER.

VII.

THE DISPUTES AND THE AUDIENCES.

VIII.

JEALOUSY.

IX.

THE WOMAN BEATER.

X.

SLAVERY.

XI.

THE FUNERAL PILE.

XII.

THE SUPPER.

OANNES—THE FISH AVATAR.

XIII.

THE RENDEZVOUS.

XIII.(1)

THE DANCE.

XIII.(2)

BLUE EYES.

XIV.

THE ROBBER.

XV.

THE FISHERMAN.

XVI.

THE BASILISK.

THE BASILISK, OR COCKATRICE.

XVII.

THE COMBATS.

XVIII.

THE HERMIT.

XIX.

THE ENIGMAS.

THE SAGE AND THE ATHEIST.

INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I.

ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY, A YOUNG ENGLISHMAN. WRITTEN BY DONNA LAS NALGAS.

CHAPTER II.

CONTINUATION OF THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN, THE YOUNG ENGLISHMAN; ALSO THOSE OF HIS WORTHY FATHER, D.D., M.P., AND F.R.S.

CHAPTER III.

SUMMARY OF THE CONTROVERSY OF THE "BUTS," BETWEEN MR. FREIND AND DON INIGO-Y-MEDROSO, Y-COMODIOS, Y-PAPALAMIENDOS, BACHELOR OF SALAMANCA.

CHAPTER IV.

JOHN RETURNS TO LONDON, AND IS LED INTO BAD COMPANY.

CHAPTER V.

THEY WANT TO GET JOHN MARRIED.

CHAPTER VI.

A TERRIBLE ADVENTURE.

CHAPTER VII.

WHAT HAPPENED IN AMERICA.

CHAPTER VIII.

DIALOGUE BETWEEN FREIND AND BIRTON ON ATHEISM.

CHAPTER IX.

ON ATHEISM.

CHAPTER X.

ON ATHEISM.

CHAPTER XI.

RETURN TO ENGLAND—JOHN'S MARRIAGE.

PRINCESS OF BABYLON

I.

ROYAL CONTEST FOR THE HAND OF FORMOSANTA.

II.

THE KING OF BABYLON CONVENES HIS COUNCIL, AND CONSULTS THE ORACLE.

III.

ROYAL FESTIVAL GIVEN IN HONOR OF THE KINGLY VISITORS. THE BIRD CONVERSES ELOQUENTLY WITH FORMOSANTA.

IV.

THE BEAUTIFUL BIRD IS KILLED BY THE KING OF EGYPT. FORMOSANTA BEGINS A JOURNEY. ALDEA ELOPES WITH THE KING OF SCYTHIA.

V.

FORMOSANTA VISITS CHINA AND SCYTHIA IN SEARCH OF AMAZAN.

VI.

THE PRINCESS CONTINUES HER JOURNEY.

VII.

AMAZAN VISITS ALBION.

VIII.

AMAZAN LEAVES ALBION TO VISIT THE LAND OF SATURN.

IX.

AMAZAN VISITS ROME.

THE SERVANT OF SERVANTS.

X.

AN UNFORTUNATE ADVENTURE IN GAUL.

KISSING THE POPE'S FOOT.

ANCIENT BARBAROUS CUSTOMS.

XI.

AMAZAN AND FORMOSANTA BECOME RECONCILED.

THE MAN OF FORTY CROWNS.

I.

NATIONAL POVERTY.

II.

DISASTER OF THE MAN OF FORTY CROWNS.

III.

CONVERSATION WITH A GEOMETRICIAN.

IV.

AN ADVENTURE WITH A CARMELITE.

V.

AUDIENCE OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL.

VI.

THE MAN OF FORTY CROWNS MARRIES, BECOMES A FATHER, AND DESCANTS UPON THE MONKS.

VII.

ON TAXES PAID TO A FOREIGN POWER.

VIII.

ON PROPORTIONS.

IX.

A GREAT QUARREL.

X.

A RASCAL REPULSED.

XI.

THE GOOD SENSE OF MR. ANDREW.

XII.

The GOOD SUPPER AT MR. ANDREW'S.

THE HURON; OR, PUPIL OF NATURE.[1]

I.

THE HURON ARRIVES IN FRANCE.

II.

THE HURON, CALLED THE INGENU, ACKNOWLEDGED BY HIS RELATIONS.

III.

THE HURON CONVERTED.

IV.

THE HURON BAPTIZED.

V.

THE HURON IN LOVE.

VI.

THE HURON FLIES TO HIS MISTRESS, AND BECOMES QUITE FURIOUS.

VII.

THE HURON REPULSES THE ENGLISH.

VIII.

THE HURON GOES TO COURT. SUPS UPON THE ROAD WITH SOME HUGUENOTS.