Preface to the second edition
Text of candide, or Optimism
"Candide" and Mademoiselle "Cunegonde": Note on their names
Candide
Backgrounds
Summary: Intellectual backgrounds / Robert M. Adams
Well, everything is well
Voltaire at Les Delices and at Ferney / Gustave Lanson
[Gestation: Candide assembling itself] / Haydn Mason
English visitors to Ferney: Sampling
August 1763
Edward Gibbon
December 1764
James Boswell
August 1771
Rev. Norton Nicholls
July 1770
Charles Burney
(Eighth Duke of Hamilton), July 1772
John Moore
Douglas Hamilton
Criticism: Conte defined / Robert M. Adams
Checklist of the Contes of Voltaire, and related writings
[Tone, pace, insinuation] / Erich Auerbach
[Voltaire and Candide] / I. O. Wade
Quality of Candide / J. G. Weightman
[Voltaire's escape from pascal] / Ernst Cassirer
Getting the point / Robert M. Adams
Climate of controversy
Voltaire's Faith
Voltaire: Letter on the subject of candide
[What did Voltaire mean by l'Infame?] / Peter Gay
Andre Delattre
Voltaire's Greatness
Joseph de Maistre
Victor Hugo
Edmond and Jules Goncourt
Voltaire's Coherence
Emile Faguet
Daniel Mornet
Raymond Naves
Voltaire's Humanity
Madame de Stael
Gustave Lanson
Voltaire's Style
Hippolyte Taine
John Morley
Short Takes: Anatole France
Gustave Flaubert
George Saintsbury
Andre Bellessort
Emile Faguet
Frederick the Great
S. G. Tallentyre
Peter Gay
Stendhal
[Pangloss's song]
Richard Wilbur
Thomas Jefferson
Jacques Van Den Heuvel
Andre Delattre
Hugo Friedrich
Voltaire's apotheosis
Paul Valery
Further reading.