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- catalog abstract "Somewhere between tales and polemics, these funny, ribald, and inventive pieces show Voltaire doing what he does best: brilliantly challenging received wisdom, religious intolerance, and naïve optimism. Traveling through strange environments, Voltaire's protagonists are educated, often by surprise, into the complexities and contradictions of their world. Arriving on Earth from the star Sirius, the gigantic explorer Micromégas discovers a diminutive people with an inflated idea of their own importance in the universe. Babouc in "The World as It Is" learns that humanity is equally capable of barbarism and remarkable altruism. Other characters include a little-known god of infidelity, a pretentious graduate who invites a savage to dinner, and an Indian fakir who puts up with a bed of nails to gain the adoration of his female disciples. These "fables of reason" challenge the assumptions of reader and protagonist alike.".
- catalog alternative "Short stories. Selections. English".
- catalog contributor b12563527.
- catalog contributor b12563528.
- catalog contributor b12563529.
- catalog contributor b12563530.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Chronology of Voltaire's life and times -- Translator's note -- Contes -- Cuckoldage -- The one-eyed porter -- Cosi-Sancta -- Micromégas -- The world as it is -- Memnon -- Letter from a Turk -- Plato's dream -- The history of the travels of Scarmentado -- The consoler and the consoled -- The story of a good Brahmin -- Pot-pourri -- An Indian incident -- Lord Chesterfield's ears -- Mélanges -- Account of the illness, confession, death and apparition of the Jesuit Berthier -- Dialogue between a savage and a graduate -- Dialogue between Ariste and Acrotal -- The education of daughters -- Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands -- Dialogue between the cock and the hen -- Conversation between Lucian, Erasmus, Rabelais, in the Elysian Fields.".
- catalog description "Somewhere between tales and polemics, these funny, ribald, and inventive pieces show Voltaire doing what he does best: brilliantly challenging received wisdom, religious intolerance, and naïve optimism. Traveling through strange environments, Voltaire's protagonists are educated, often by surprise, into the complexities and contradictions of their world. Arriving on Earth from the star Sirius, the gigantic explorer Micromégas discovers a diminutive people with an inflated idea of their own importance in the universe. Babouc in "The World as It Is" learns that humanity is equally capable of barbarism and remarkable altruism. Other characters include a little-known god of infidelity, a pretentious graduate who invites a savage to dinner, and an Indian fakir who puts up with a bed of nails to gain the adoration of his female disciples. These "fables of reason" challenge the assumptions of reader and protagonist alike.".
- catalog extent "xxxvi, 162 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0140446869".
- catalog isPartOf "Penguin classics".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Penguin,".
- catalog subject "843.5 21".
- catalog subject "PQ2081.E5 C84 2002".
- catalog subject "Voltaire, 1694-1778 Translations into English.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Chronology of Voltaire's life and times -- Translator's note -- Contes -- Cuckoldage -- The one-eyed porter -- Cosi-Sancta -- Micromégas -- The world as it is -- Memnon -- Letter from a Turk -- Plato's dream -- The history of the travels of Scarmentado -- The consoler and the consoled -- The story of a good Brahmin -- Pot-pourri -- An Indian incident -- Lord Chesterfield's ears -- Mélanges -- Account of the illness, confession, death and apparition of the Jesuit Berthier -- Dialogue between a savage and a graduate -- Dialogue between Ariste and Acrotal -- The education of daughters -- Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands -- Dialogue between the cock and the hen -- Conversation between Lucian, Erasmus, Rabelais, in the Elysian Fields.".
- catalog title "Micromégas and other short fictions / Voltaire ; translated by Theo Cuffe ; with an introduction and notes by Haydn Mason.".
- catalog title "Short stories. Selections. English".
- catalog type "Translations. fast".
- catalog type "text".