Author:Voltaire

Voltaire
(1694–1778)

Voltaire

Scans

Works

The Works of Voltaire, translated by William F. Fleming, edited by John Morley (1906)(43 volumes)

Novels and fiction

• Zadig, translated by unknown value (1749)
• Micromegas (1752)
• Candide, or Optimism, 1920 (Candide, ou l’Optimisme, 1759)
• Jeannot and Colin (1764)
• Memnon
• The Princess of Babylon, 1768
• Zayre, 1733
• Oreste, 1750
• The Good Brahmin (Histoire d'un bon Brahmin, 1759)
• The Huron; or, Pupil of Nature (L'Ingénu, 1767)
• The Civil War of Geneva, 1768
• The White Bull (Le Taureau blanc, 1774)
• "The Two Genies" in The Strand Magazine, 1 (1) (1891) translation (Illustrated by John Gülich)
• "The Hermit" in The Strand Magazine, 1 (6) (1891) translation (Illustrated by Alan W. Wright)
• The Story of Johnny; or, The Atheist and the Sage

Poems

• Azolan
• On the Death of Adrienne Lecouvreur
• From Love to Friendship
• In Camp Before Philippsburg, July 3, 1734
• The Origin of Trades
• The Padlock
• Thelema and Macareus
• To a Lady Very Well Known to the Whole Town
• To Her Royal Highness, the Princess of ***
• To the Queen of Hungary
• Poem on the Lisbon Disaster
• Ode to the King of Prussia
• The Temple of Taste (Le Temple du Goût), trans. printed by Robert Urie (1751)
• La Henriade (1723)
  • The Henriade; with the Battle of Fontenoy, Dissertations on Man, Law of Nature, Destruction of Lisbon, Temple of Taste, and Temple of Friendship, edited by O. W. Wight (1859) (external scan)
• On Liberty
• On Moderation in All Things

Plays

• Œdipus (1718)
• Eriphile (1732)
• Irène
• Mahomet (1736)
• Mérope
• Nanine
• Zaïre (1732)
• Socrates (1759)

Other works

• In Connection with the Death of Jean Calas
• On Superstition
• On the Interpretation of the Old Testament
• On the Interpretation of the New Testament
• Epistle to the Romans
• The Sermon of the Fifty
• The Questions of Zapata
• We Must Take Sides
• An Essay on Taste, with Three Dissertations on the Same Subject (Goût), trans. by Alexander Gerard (1759) (external scan)
• Philosophical Dictionary (Dictionnaire philosophique, 1764)
• Epistle to the Author of the Three Impostors (Épître à l’auteur du livre des trois imposteurs, 1770)
• Toleration and other essays (1912) translated by Joseph MacCabe

Letters

• Letter From Voltaire to Jonathan Swift - 1 (June 1727)
• Letter From Voltaire to Jonathan Swift - 2 (1727)
• Letter From Voltaire to Jonathan Swift - 3 (December 14, 1727)
• Letter From Voltaire to Jonathan Swift - 4 (1727)
• Letter From Voltaire to Charles Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau – 1 (June 1727)
• Letters concerning the English Nation (1733)
  • Also ed. (1894) by Henry Morley

Works attributed to Voltaire

• Commentary on An Essay on Crimes and Punishments by Marquis de Beccaria

Works addressed to Voltaire

• Lettres de quelques Juifs portugais et allemands à M. de Voltaire (1769) by Antoine Guenée.
  • Letters of Certain Jews to Monsieur de Voltaire. Containing an Apology for Their Own People, and for the Old Testament, with Critical Reflections and a Short Commentary Extracted from a Greater. In Two Volumes. (1777) translated by Philip LeFanu (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

Works about Voltaire

• "Voltaire in the Netherlands" by Jhr. C.A. Van Sypesteyn in Littell's Living Age, 134 (1726)
• "The Heart of Voltaire, Living and Dead" by Marguerite Agnes Power in Once a Week magazine, London 1861.
• "Voltaire" by Edward Bruce Hamley, 1877.
• "Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de," by Parke Godwin in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de," by George Saintsbury in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Voltaire," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)