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Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume

by Voltaire (1694–1778)

Portrait of Voltaire
Nicolas de Largillière · CC0

126 chapters, about 163,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

  1. PUBLISHER'S PREFACE 4,000 words
  2. PETER ECKLER. 300 words
  3. THE WHITE BULL: A SATIRICAL ROMANCE. 200 words
  4. TAURUS. 1,000 words
  5. HOW THE PRINCESS AMASIDIA MEETS A BULL. 1,200 words
  6. CHAPTER II. 1,200 words
  7. CHAPTER III. 1,700 words
  8. CHAPTER IV. 800 words
  9. A STRANGE METAMORPHOSIS. 800 words
  10. HOW THE WISE MAMBRES CONDUCTED HIMSELF WISELY. 2,300 words
  11. CHAPTER VI. 900 words
  12. CHAPTER VII. 500 words
  13. CHAPTER VIII. 400 words
  14. HOW THE SERPENT DID NOT COMFORT THE PRINCESS. 1,100 words
  15. CHAPTER X. 600 words
  16. CHAPTER XI. 700 words
  17. EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO THE SULTANA SERAA. 500 words
  18. THE BLIND OF ONE EYE. 1,200 words
  19. THE NOSE. 700 words
  20. THE DOG AND THE HORSE. 1,300 words
  21. THE ENVIOUS MAN. 1,100 words
  22. THE GENEROUS. 800 words
  23. THE MINISTER. 700 words
  24. THE DISPUTES AND THE AUDIENCES. 700 words
  25. JEALOUSY. 1,600 words
  26. THE WOMAN BEATER. 600 words
  27. SLAVERY. 1,200 words
  28. THE FUNERAL PILE. 1,000 words
  29. THE SUPPER. 400 words
  30. OANNES--THE FISH AVATAR. 1,600 words
  31. THE RENDEZVOUS. 600 words
  32. THE DANCE. 900 words
  33. BLUE EYES. 1,300 words
  34. THE ROBBER. 1,000 words
  35. THE FISHERMAN. 1,000 words
  36. THE BASILISK. 200 words
  37. THE BASILISK, OR COCKATRICE. 2,700 words
  38. THE COMBATS. 1,400 words
  39. THE HERMIT. 2,200 words
  40. THE ENIGMAS. 1,200 words
  41. INTRODUCTION. 300 words
  42. CHAPTER I. 700 words
  43. CHAPTER II. 1,000 words
  44. CHAPTER III. 2,300 words
  45. CHAPTER IV. 800 words
  46. THEY WANT TO GET JOHN MARRIED. 1,000 words
  47. A TERRIBLE ADVENTURE. 1,200 words
  48. WHAT HAPPENED IN AMERICA. 2,500 words
  49. DIALOGUE BETWEEN FREIND AND BIRTON ON ATHEISM. 1,500 words
  50. ON ATHEISM. 2,800 words
  51. ON ATHEISM. 2,100 words
  52. RETURN TO ENGLAND--JOHN'S MARRIAGE. 200 words
  53. ROYAL CONTEST FOR THE HAND OF FORMOSANTA. 3,200 words
  54. II. 700 words
  55. III. 2,500 words
  56. IV. 3,900 words
  57. V. 1,400 words
  58. THE PRINCESS CONTINUES HER JOURNEY. 1,400 words
  59. AMAZAN VISITS ALBION. 600 words
  60. VIII. 2,200 words
  61. AMAZAN VISITS ROME. 1,000 words
  62. THE SERVANT OF SERVANTS. 1,300 words
  63. AN UNFORTUNATE ADVENTURE IN GAUL. 300 words
  64. KISSING THE POPE'S FOOT. 2,400 words
  65. ANCIENT BARBAROUS CUSTOMS. 1,000 words
  66. AMAZAN AND FORMOSANTA BECOME RECONCILED. 3,200 words
  67. NATIONAL POVERTY. 600 words
  68. DISASTER OF THE MAN OF FORTY CROWNS. 900 words
  69. CONVERSATION WITH A GEOMETRICIAN. 4,300 words
  70. AN ADVENTURE WITH A CARMELITE. 700 words
  71. AUDIENCE OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL. 900 words
  72. VI. 1,300 words
  73. QUESTION.--Might not as much be said of soldiers? 600 words
  74. ON TAXES PAID TO A FOREIGN POWER. 700 words
  75. ON PROPORTIONS. 1,700 words
  76. A GREAT QUARREL. 400 words
  77. A RASCAL REPULSED. 400 words
  78. THE GOOD SENSE OF MR. ANDREW. 600 words
  79. XII. 1,900 words
  80. THE HURON ARRIVES IN FRANCE. 2,200 words
  81. II. 1,300 words
  82. THE HURON CONVERTED. 700 words
  83. THE HURON BAPTIZED. 900 words
  84. THE HURON IN LOVE. 1,100 words
  85. VI. 900 words
  86. THE HURON REPULSES THE ENGLISH. 800 words
  87. VIII. 800 words
  88. IX. 1,100 words
  89. X. 1,800 words
  90. HOW THE HURON DISCLOSES HIS GENIUS. 1,000 words
  91. THE HURON'S SENTIMENTS UPON THEATRICAL PIECES. 500 words
  92. THE BEAUTIFUL MISS ST. YVES GOES TO VERSAILLES. 1,600 words
  93. RAPID PROGRESS OF THE HURON'S INTELLECT. 700 words
  94. XV. 800 words
  95. MISS ST. YVES CONSULTS A JESUIT. 600 words
  96. THE JESUIT TRIUMPHS. 500 words
  97. XVIII. 1,000 words
  98. XIX. 2,400 words
  99. XX. 2,200 words
  100. I. 1,200 words
  101. II. 1,100 words
  102. THE VOYAGE OF THESE INHABITANTS OF OTHER WORLDS. 700 words
  103. WHAT BEFELL THEM UPON THIS OUR GLOBE. 1,100 words
  104. THE TRAVELERS CAPTURE A VESSEL. 300 words
  105. WHAT HAPPENED IN THEIR INTERCOURSE WITH MEN. 1,700 words
  106. THE VISION OF BABOUC. 3,600 words
  107. THE BLACK AND THE WHITE. 5,000 words
  108. MEMNON THE PHILOSOPHER. 2,100 words
  109. ANDRÉ DES TOUCHES AT SIAM. 1,600 words
  110. THE BLIND PENSIONERS AT QUINZE VINGT. 800 words
  111. BABABEC. 600 words
  112. RELIGIOUS ZEAL. 1,400 words
  113. INTRODUCTION. 600 words
  114. THE STUDY OF NATURE. 400 words
  115. GOOD ADVICE. 400 words
  116. DIALOGUE UPON THE SOUL AND OTHER TOPICS. 1,700 words
  117. A CONVERSATION WITH A CHINESE. 1,400 words
  118. ANDROGYNOUS DEITIES. 900 words
  119. PLATO'S DREAM. 1,100 words
  120. PLEASURE IN HAVING NO PLEASURE. 2,000 words
  121. AN ADVENTURE IN INDIA. 1,200 words
  122. JEANNOT AND COLIN. 3,600 words
  123. THE HISTORY OF THE TRAVELS OF SCARMENTADO.[1] 3,200 words
  124. DOES HAPPINESS RESULT FROM IGNORANCE OR FROM KNOWLEDGE? 800 words
  125. THE TWO COMFORTERS. 600 words
  126. ANCIENT FAITH AND FABLE. 1,100 words

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