About the Author

Voltaire (1694–1778) was a French man of letters and a leading figure of the Enlightenment, known for his outspokenness and polemical writings. The philosophical novellas Candide and Zadig are among his most celebrated works.

Reviews

Voltaire will always be regarded as the biggest name of recent literature, and perhaps throughout all the centuries.
*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe*

This welcome selection of fourteen of the lesser-known fables and parables comes in a wonderfully loose-limbed and unstuffy translation which shows both Voltaire – and the late Douglas Parmée – on top form.
*TLS*