This Norton Critical Edition includes:Robert M. Adams’s translation, which renders French intent in English idiom, preserving the novella’s provocative humor, accompanied by explanatory annotations for a contemporary audience.CandideCandideCandideAn updated selected bibliography and, for the first time, a chronology of Voltaire’s life and times. Nicholas Cronk is Director of the Voltaire Foundation, Professor of French Literature, and Lecturer in the History of the Book at Oxford University. He is General Editor of the Complete Works of Voltaire as well as editor or co-editor of many publications. His current research project is Voltaire's Radical Enlightenment: Editing and Re-Interpreting the Lettres sur les Anglais , for which he has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship (2015―17).