Books That Might be Helpful
The Story behind Candide:
Torrey, Norman Lewis. The Spirit of Voltaire. New York: Russell, 1938. Artistic Interpretations of Candide:
The Philosophies of the Time:
Nicolson, Harold George. The age of reason, the eighteenth century. Garden City: Doubleday, 1961.
Reiter, Joseph A. Eighteenth Century France. New York: Knopf, 1973.
Willey, Basil. The eighteenth century background; studies on the idea of nature in the thought of the period. New York: Columbia UP, 1969. The Significance of Candide:
Brandes, Georg. Voltaire. Vol. 2. New York: Ungar, 1964.
Ricardo, Ilona, and Richter, Peyton. Voltaire. Boston: Twayne, 1980. Other Works by Voltaire:
Voltaire. Micromegas. New York: Penguin, 1995. Criticisms of Candide:
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Vol. 14. Detroit: Gale, 1991. And of course… Candide itself:
Aldridge, A. Owen. Voltaire and the Century of Light. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1957.
Bernstein, Leonard. Candide. RCA Victor, , 1997.
Hazard, Paul. European thought in the eighteenth century: from Montesquieu to Lessing. Cleveland: World, 1965.
Ayer, A.J. Voltaire. New York: Random, 1986.
Voltaire. Zadig L’Ingenu. New York: Viking, 1978.
European Writers: The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment. New York: Scribners, 1984.
Voltaire. Candide. Trans. Lowell Bair. New York: Bantam, 1998.
