This essential collection from the genius Voltaire includes his masterpiece and best-known work Candide, as well as his novel Zadig and fourteen short stories: “Micromegas,†“The World as It Is,†“Memnon,†“Bababec and the Fakirs,†“History of Scarmentado’s Travels,†“Plato’s Dream,†“Account of the Sickness, Confession, Death, and Apparition of the Jesuit Berthier,†“Story of a Good Brahman,†“Jeannot and Colin,†“An Indian Adventure,†“Ingenuous,†“The One-Eyed Porter,†“Memory’s Adventure,†“Count Chesterfield’s Ears,†and “Chaplain Goudman.â€