Candide

Preface to the Second Edition vii The Text of Candide, or Optimism ix ``Candide'' and Mademoiselle ``Cunegonde'': A Note on Their Names xi Candide 1(76) Backgrounds 77(50) Summary: The Intellectual Backgrounds 79(5) Robert M. Adams Well, Everything Is Well 84(6) Voltaire at Les Delices and at Ferney 90(9) Gustave Lanson [Gestation: Candide Assembling Itself] 99(13) Haydn Mason English Visitors to Ferney: A Sampling 112(15) August 1763 113(1) Edward Gibbon December 1764 114(1) James Boswell August 1771 115(1) Rev. Norton Nicholls July 1770 116(2) Charles Burney (Eighth Duke of Hamilton), July 1772 118(9) John Moore Douglas Hamilton Criticism 127(52) The Conte Defined 129(1) Robert M. Adams A Checklist of the Contes of Voltaire, and Related Writings 129(3) [Tone, Pace, Insinuation] 132(12) Erich Auerbach [Voltaire and Candide] 144(9) I. O. Wade The Quality of Candide 153(14) J. G. Weightman [Voltaire's Escape from Pascal] 167(6) Ernst Cassirer Getting the Point 173(6) Robert M. Adams The Climate of Controversy 179(30) Voltaire's Faith 181(4) Voltaire: Letter on the Subject of Candide 181(2) [What Did Voltaire Mean by l'Infame?] 183(1) Peter Gay Andre Delattre 184(1) Voltaire's Greatness 185(4) Joseph de Maistre 186(1) Victor Hugo 187(1) Edmond and Jules Goncourt 188(1) Voltaire's Coherence 189(4) Emile Faguet 189(1) Daniel Mornet 190(1) Raymond Naves 191(2) Voltaire's Humanity 193(3) Madame de Stael 193(2) Gustave Lanson 195(1) Voltaire's Style 196(7) Hippolyte Taine 196(2) John Morley 198(5) Short Takes 203(4) Anatole France 203(1) Gustave Flaubert 203(1) George Saintsbury 203(1) Andre Bellessort 203(1) Emile Faguet 204(1) Frederick the Great 204(1) S. G. Tallentyre 204(1) Peter Gay 204(1) Stendhal 204(1) [Pangloss's Song] 205(1) Richard Wilbur Thomas Jefferson 206(1) Jacques Van Den Heuvel 206(1) Andre Delattre 207(1) Hugo Friedrich 207(1) Voltaire's Apotheosis 207(2) Paul Valery 207(2) For Further Reading 209