# Zadig and L'Ingénu

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- Book: [Zadig and L'Ingénu](https://www.bookquiver.com/voltaire/zadig-and-lingenu) ([Zadig and L'Ingénu.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/voltaire/zadig-and-lingenu.md))
- Authors: [Voltaire](https://www.bookquiver.com/voltaire)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-105-7
- Published: 2006-04-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

One of Voltaire's earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France