Voltaire ~11 hr read

Candide, Micromégas, Zadig, and more, the great satirical tales of Voltaire, in which biting wit and philosophical mischief hide latent truths beneath the appearance of fable.

This 1889 collection gathers Voltaire's philosophical romances. Witty, savage, immortal. Read it for the sparkling contes philosophiques of the Enlightenment's sharpest mind, including 'Micromégas,' an early tale of giant visitors from other worlds that helped invent science fiction, brimming with irony, wisdom, and gleeful demolition of human folly and cant.

In its time

Published in 1889, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

~11 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).