But what was more admirable in Babylon, and eclipsed everything else, was the only daughter of th...

This comedy is partly imitated from an English piece, called the Plain Dealer. It does not suit v...

This tragedy was produced in 1730. It marks Voltaire's spirit of daring in treating a subject fro...

¿dipus was written when Voltaire was but nineteen years of age. It was played for the first time ...

Alzire first appeared on the stage in 1736 to great acclaim and success. Alzire is set Lima, Peru...

Included in this omnibus edition are Candide, Zadig and seventeen of Voltaire's most important pl...

In his preface to this play Voltaire says: 'The learned will not here meet with a faithful narrat...

Candide, a pampered nobleman, is suddenly thrust out of his sheltered life into a cold uncaring w...

Yet it is too soon. When I possess the crown, your faithful eyes Shall be the witnesses of all my...

I don't belong to the house, sir; but I spend most of my time in the coffee-room; write news, pol...

Don't imagine, my dear, that, by what I'm going to say, I mean to exercise the authority of a mot...

Socrates is a play in three acts about Socrates and the events of his trial and eventual death. S...