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The Age of Voltaire
- A History of Civlization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, with Special Emphasis on the Conflict between Religion and Philosophy
- By: Will Durant, Ariel Durant
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 42 hrs and 55 mins
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The Age of Voltaire, the ninth volume of The Story of Civilization, is an in-depth examination of France and England in the first half of the 18th century.
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The Age of Voltaire
- A History of Civlization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, with Special Emphasis on the Conflict between Religion and Philosophy
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Series: The Story of Civilization, Book 9
- Length: 42 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 26-05-2015
- Language: English
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Micromegas
- By: Voltaire, Audible Sleep
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 59 mins
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If we were as tiny as ants to another being, what would they make of our philosophies? The great satirist Voltaire imagines alien visitors who have opinions. Bedtime stories are narrated by the world's most celebrated voices and written with no beginning, middle, or end so you don't stay up to hear what happens next. They're interesting enough to give your mind something to focus on, but delivered in a way that encourages sleep.
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Really interesting early SciFi
- By Daniel Smartt on 21-11-2024
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Micromegas
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 59 mins
- Release date: 14-05-2020
- Language: English
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Voltaire and the Triumph of the Enlightenment
- By: Alan Charles Kors, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Alan Charles Kors
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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Discover why intellectuals and historians alike consider Voltaire to be one of the most intriguing, influential, and elusive thinkers of the modern world. Focusing on the deepest, most enduring aspects of Voltaire's work and thought, but never losing sight of the colorful, fascinating man himself, these 12 lectures sketch for you a vibrant, thought-provoking vision of Voltaire as "the father of the Enlightenment" and one of the great literary personalities of all time.
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Voltaire and the Triumph of the Enlightenment
- Narrated by: Alan Charles Kors
- Series: The Great Courses: Modern Philosophy
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 08-07-2013
- Language: English
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Candide and Zadig
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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These two classic coming-of-age stories by Voltaire parody the romanticism of his day with the ruthless wit that has made him the undisputed master of social commentary.
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Candide and Zadig
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-06-2011
- Language: English
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Candide, or Optimism
- By: Francois Voltaire, Theo Cuffe - editor, Michael Wood - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: Ben Lloyd Hughes
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Ben Lloyd-Hughes, best known for Divergent, Me Before You and The Inbetweeners. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Michael Wood. Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man...
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Narrator did a great job
- By Emily H on 08-02-2025
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Candide, or Optimism
- Narrated by: Ben Lloyd Hughes
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 25-02-2021
- Language: English
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Voltaire and the French Enlightenment by Will Durant.
- By: Popular Culture and Religion.
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Voltaire and the French Enlightenment by Will Durant. In this Little Blue Book Number 512, Will Durant describes François-Marie Arouet, the writer, historian, and philosopher known as Voltaire (1694-1778) as "unprepossessing, ugly, vain, flippant, unscrupulous, even at times dishonest" and "tirelessly kind, considerate, ...as sedulous in helping friends as in crushing enemies." "My trade is to say what I think," wrote Voltaire, and he did so in ninety-nine "sparkling and fruitful" volumes. He advocated for freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and for the separation of church and state. ...
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Candide
- In an American Voice
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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The legendary ironic insightful classic by Voltaire, considered the greatest artistic genius of his era. Introducing the legendary, best-of-all-possible-worlds Pangloss. A whirlwind trip around the globe with irony, wit, insight, genius, and more at each stop.
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- By Leo Andrews on 16-03-2026
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Candide
- In an American Voice
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 24-03-2022
- Language: English
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Voltaire In Space: Micromegas & Plato's Dream
- Voltaire’s Forgotten Science Fiction – Micromegas and Plato’s Dream
- By: Voltaire, Wiliam F Fleming
- Narrated by: Charles Featherstone
- Length: 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The sharpest pen of the French Enlightenment, the author of Candide (1759)... and also a sci-fi writer two hundred years before the term existed. This volume brings together two forgotten gems from the 1750s, when Voltaire was at the height of his powers. Micromegas (1752): A...
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Voltaire In Space: Micromegas & Plato's Dream
- Voltaire’s Forgotten Science Fiction – Micromegas and Plato’s Dream
- Narrated by: Charles Featherstone
- Length: 47 mins
- Release date: 11-04-2026
- Language: English
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Rousseau and Voltaire
- The Lives of the Two Most Famous Intellectuals of the Enlightenment
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Mark Linsenmayer
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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Alongside the Renaissance, the Enlightenment is credited with the transition to an adherence to reason, secularism, and promotion of values such as the value of the individual, collective freedom, and liberty. At the heart of the movement in France was François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, whose writings advocated for greater liberalism, including freedom of religion and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a biting polemic whose satirical attacks on the Catholic Church were among the fiercest of his day.
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Rousseau and Voltaire
- The Lives of the Two Most Famous Intellectuals of the Enlightenment
- Narrated by: Mark Linsenmayer
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-06-2015
- Language: English
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Voltaire and the French Enlightenment
- By: Will Durant
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In Little Blue Book Number 512, Will Durant delves into the life of Francois-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire (1694-1778). Described as unprepossessing, ugly, vain, flippant, unscrupulous, and at times dishonest, he was also tirelessly kind and considerate, demonstrating an unwavering commitment to both his friends and his principles. My trade is to say what I think, Voltaire proclaimed, and he did so with remarkable flair across ninety-nine sparkling and fruitful volumes. A staunch advocate for freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the separation of church and state, Voltaires ...
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Candide ou l'optimisme
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Frédéric Chevaux
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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Candide est un jeune garçon vivant au château du baron de Thunderten-tronckh qui se trouve en Westphalie. Il a pour maître Pangloss, philosophe qui enseigne la "métaphysico-théologo-cosmolonigologie", et qui professait, à l'instar de Leibniz, que l'on vit dans le meilleur des mondes possibles.
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Candide ou l'optimisme
- Narrated by: Frédéric Chevaux
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2014
- Language: French
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Candide by Voltaire.
- By: AudioBooks
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Candide by Voltaire. Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that — contrary to the teachings of his ...
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Candide, ou l'optimisme
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Guy Nadon
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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Élevé dans un beau château et chassé d’icelui, Candide, disciple ingénu du docteur Pangloss, traverse un monde où l’optimisme se heurte au réel. Ballotté parmi les Bulgares, livré aux tempêtes, aux naufrages et aux tremblements de terre, entraîné jusque sous l’ombre des autos-da-fé, il croise une vieille secourable, l’anabaptiste Jacques, et retrouve ce qu’il aimait, Cunégonde, tandis que le grand-inquisiteur rôde et qu’un Juif s’en mêle.
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Candide, ou l'optimisme
- Narrated by: Guy Nadon
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2026
- Language: French
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Micromégas
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Alain Couchot
- Length: 53 mins
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"Dans une de ces planètes qui tournent autour de l'étoile nommée Sirius, il y avait un jeune homme de beaucoup d'esprit, que j'ai eu l'honneur de connaître dans le dernier voyage qu'il fit sur notre petite fourmilière ; il s'appelait Micromégas, nom qui convient fort à tous les grands. Il avait huit lieues de haut : j'entends, par huit lieues, vingt-quatre mille pas géométriques de cinq pieds chacun."
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Micromégas
- Narrated by: Alain Couchot
- Length: 53 mins
- Release date: 17-03-2014
- Language: French
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Candide (Gildan Media Edition)
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
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Candide, is a French satire written in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. One of the finest satires ever written, this lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunégonde, and tortured by the Inquisition. As Candide witnesses calamity upon calamity, he becomes disillusioned and discovers that all is not always for the best....
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Candide (Gildan Media Edition)
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 16-09-2010
- Language: English
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Candide oder Der Optimismus
- Eine philosophische Novelle
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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In Candide oder Der Optimismus zieht Voltaire mit spitzer Feder gegen den naiven Weltglauben seiner Zeit zu Felde. Der junge Candide durchlebt Krieg, Erdbeben, Inquisition, Raub, Betrug – und bleibt dabei stets seinem optimistischen Lehrsatz treu. Doch die Realität holt ihn ein. Und Voltaire? Der malt ein düsteres, oft komisches und radikal kritisches Bild der Welt – in einer Novelle, die ebenso philosophisch wie unterhaltsam ist.
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Candide oder Der Optimismus
- Eine philosophische Novelle
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-01-2026
- Language: German
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Tod im Cabaret Voltaire
- Josephine Wyss ermittelt
- By: Miriam Veya
- Narrated by: Isabel Florido
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Zürich, im Oktober 1919: Die junge Witwe Josephine, deren soeben verstorbener Mann eine "Auskunftsstelle für vermisste Personen" betrieben hat, in dem auch sie tätig war, steht vor dem Nichts. Als sie am Abend nach der Beerdigung im verwaisten Büro überlegt, dieses aufzulösen, stürmt eine Frau herein und beauftragt sie mit der Suche nach ihrer verschwundenen Freundin. Diese ist Tänzerin im Cabaret Voltaire, der Wiege der DADA-Bewegung, wo auch die Auftraggeberin als Künstlerin arbeitet. Eigentlich will Josephine den Auftrag ablehnen.
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Tod im Cabaret Voltaire
- Josephine Wyss ermittelt
- Narrated by: Isabel Florido
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 29-12-2023
- Language: German
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Candide
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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When Candide is cast out of his sheltered life, he embarks on a journey filled with war, natural disasters, betrayal, and heartbreak—all while clinging to the optimistic philosophy of his mentor, Pangloss. As he travels across Europe and the Americas, encountering a bizarre array of characters and suffering the harsh realities of life, Candide’s faith in idealism is repeatedly tested. In this classic satire, Voltaire skewers the pretensions of philosophy, religion, and social systems, offering a compelling critique of human nature.
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Candide
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 27-02-2025
- Language: English
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Candide and Zadig
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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Voltaire's razor-sharp satire on philosophical optimism, Candide, is coupled here with another of the author's most celebrated works, Zadig. Both challenge the moral and philosophical orthodoxies of the day with humor and sly wit, while parodying the clichéd formulas of so many contemporary novels.
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- By Daniel on 26-05-2018
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Candide and Zadig
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 28-08-2008
- Language: English
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Candide (version 2)
- By: Voltaire
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Candide is a sharp, unflinching critique of government, society, religion, education, and, most notably, the philosophy of optimism. Under the guidance of Dr. Pangloss, Candide and Cunegonde are taught that everything in this world happens for the best—a belief that quickly unravels as life throws its harsh lessons their way. This novel is not only brilliant and hilarious but also blasphemous, with Voltaire cleverly maintaining the mystery of authorship.
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