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Micromégas and Other
Short Fictions
Translated by Theo Cuffe with an
Introduction and Notes by Haydn Mason
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.
192 pp. 978-0-14-044686-9 $11.00
Philosophical Dictionary
Translated and Edited with an
Introduction by Theodore Besterman
Voltaire’s irony, scrutiny, and passionate
love of reason and justice are fully evident
in this deliberately revolutionary series of
essays on religion, metaphysics, society,
and government.
400 pp. 978-0-14-044257-1 $15.00
Zadig/L’Ingénu
Translated with an Introduction by
John Butt
One of Voltaire’s earliest tales, Zadig is
set in the exotic East and is told in the
comic spirit of Candide; L’Ingénu, written
after Candide, is a darker tale in which an
American Indian records his impressions
of France.
192 pp. 978-0-14-044126-0 $11.00
See The Portable Enlightenment Reader.
Jacobus de voraGINe
c.1229 – 1298, French
The Golden Legend
Selections
Selected and Translated by Christopher
Stace with an Introduction and Notes by
Richard Hamer
This single-volume sourcebook of all
the core Christian stories attracted a
huge audience across thirteenth-century
254 penguin classics
Europe, including Geoffrey Chaucer. The
more than seventy biographies here are
essential reading for anyone who wants
to understand medieval imagery, art, and
thought.
432 pp. 978-0-14-044648-7 $18.00
horace walpole
1717 – 1797, english
“[Walpole] is the father of the first romance
and surely worthy of a higher place than any
living writer.” —l o r d b y r o n
The Castle of Otranto
Edited with an Introduction by
Michael Gamer
Set in the time of the Crusades, this tale
of fatal prophecy established the Gothic
as a literary form in England. Blending
psychological realism and supernatural
terror, guilty secrets and unlawful desires,
it has influenced a tradition stretching
from Ann Radcliffe and Bram Stoker to
Daphne du Maurier and Stephen King.
208 pp. 978-0-14-043767-6 $10.00
See Three Gothic Novels.
booKer t. washINGtoN
1856 – 1915, american
Up from Slavery
Introduction by Louis R. Harlan
Washington’s autobiography reveals
the conviction he held that the black
man’s salvation lay in education,
industriousness, and self-reliance.
336 pp. 978-0-14-039051-3 $11.00