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Zadig

by Voltaire

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Front Matter
5:19
Chapter 1
9:33
Chapter 2
6:07
Chapter 3
13:18
Chapter 4
13:18
Chapter 5
6:34
Chapter 6
9:48
Chapter 7
13:48
Chapter 8
9:17
Chapter 9
9:20
Chapter 10
7:36
Chapter 11
12:06
Chapter 12
12:55
Chapter 13
10:59
Chapter 14
11:04
Chapter 15
30:58
Chapter 16
14:30
Chapter 17
18:54
Chapter 18
11:36

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Zadig, a wise and virtuous young man in an imagined ancient Babylon, seems destined for happiness, yet fate flings him without warning from favor to disgrace and back again. Falsely accused, enslaved, raised to power, and cast down once more, he puzzles endlessly over why the good so often suffer while the wicked prosper. Voltaire uses the fast, glittering tale to mock superstition, tyranny, and the comfortable belief that everything happens for the best. Light on the surface and sharp underneath, it is one of his most entertaining philosophical stories and a small masterpiece of the Enlightenment. Free to download as a PDF or EPUB.

Available edition: text of Project Gutenberg eBook #18972. The cover is an original BDeBooks design. The PDF has 104 pages; the EPUB is reflowable. Project Gutenberg credits and license are kept.

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Voltaire

Voltaire (1694-1778), pen name of Francois-Marie Arouet, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, and polemicist. Celebrated for his wit and his campaigns against tyranny and religious intolerance, he produced plays, histories, essays, and tales, of which Candide remains the most widely read.