Zadig, or The Book of Fate: Followed by Micromégas, Voltaire

Zadig, a virtuous young philosopher, experiences the world during an initiatory journey marked by alternately favorable and cruel fortune. From Babylon to Egypt, from the royal court to the land of brigands, from the love of a queen to an encounter with a divinatory hermit, Zadig's wandering will put him to the test of the world's injustice... A famous philosophical tale by Voltaire, Zadig is a fierce satire of 18th-century French customs and institutions.