Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. A Family and a Name, 1694-1713 -- 2. Love and Libertinage, 1713-1721 -- 3. The First Literary War, 1722 -- 4. The Miracle of La Henriade, 1723-1726 -- 5. A Frenchman Who Knows England Well, 1726-1729 -- 6. Further Echoes of England, 1729-1733 -- 7. Continued Persecution, 1733-1736 -- 8. The New Theseus and Ariadne, 1737-1739 -- 9. Face to Face with Frederick, 1739-1740 -- 10. Literature and Espionage, 1741-1743 -- 11. Court Poet and Historian, 1744-1747 -- 12. More Than It Seems To Say, 1748 -- 13. The Death of a Great Man, 1749 -- 14. From Paris to Potsdam, 1750 -- 15. A Voluntary Exile, 1751-1752 -- 16. A Double Book Burning, 1752-1753 -- 17. Poisonous Days, 1754-1755 -- 18. To Live in Tranquility, 1756-1757 -- 19. Toward Open Defiance, 1758-1759 -- 20. Candide: "A Mixture of Ridicule and Horror" -- 21. Laugh and You Will Crush Them, 1760 -- 22. Skirmishes Literary and Otherwise, 1761 -- 23. The Avenging of Humanity, 1762 -- 24. Is This the Century of Enlightenment? 1763 -- 25. Visitors to Ferney, 1762-1765 -- 26. The Philosophical Dictionary, 1764 -- 27. Magistrate of Humanity, 1765-1766 -- 28. Latent Primitivism, 1767-1768 -- 29. Words and Whispers, 1769-1770 -- 30. Don Quixote of the Alps, 1771-1772 -- 31. Eulogies and Discourses, 1773-1774 -- 32. Shakespeare's Rival, 1775-1778 -- 33. Vindication, 1778 398 -- 34. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter.
