Micromegas and Other Short Fictions

INTRODUCTION VII CHRONOLOGY OF VOLTAIRE'S LIFE AND TIMES XXIX FURTHER READING XXXII NOTE ON THE TEXTS XXXIV TRANSLATOR'S NOTE XXXV CONTES Cuckoldage 3 The One-eyed Porter 5 Cosi-Sancta 11 Micromégas 17 The World As It Is 36 Memnon 52 Letter from a Turk 57 Plato's Dream 60 The History of the Travels of Scarmentado 63 The Consoler and the Consoled 70 The Story of a Good Brahmin 72 Pot-Pourri 75 An Indian Incident 91 Lord Chesterfield's Ears 93 MÉLANGES Account of the Illness, Confession, Death and Apparition of the Jesuit Berthier 113 Dialogue between a Savage and a Graduate 123 Dialogue between Ariste and Acrotal 129 The Education of Daughters 133 Wives, Submit Yourselves to Your Husbands 135 Dialogue between the Cock and the Hen 139 Conversation between Lucian, Erasmus and Rabelais, in the Elysian Fields 143 NOTES 148