Micromégas and other short fictions. (2002)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Works.
• Further Information: Note: Voltaire ; translated by Theo Cuffe ; with an introduction and notes by Haydn Mason.
• Other Names: Voltaire, 1694-1778; Cuffe, Theo; Mason, Haydn Trevor; Voltaire, 1694-1778
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Penguin
• Publication Date: 2002
• Extent: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Subjects: 843.5; FICTION / Classics; Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers; Short Stories; Literary Essays; Classic Fiction (Pre C 1945); Translations; Translations into English; Translations into English
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780141960692; 0141960698
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.