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Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)

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Description for Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) paperback. When his love for the Baron's daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an outrageous series of disasters befall them earthquakes, syphilis, a brush with the Inquisition, and murder, testing the young hero's optimism. Translator(s): Cuffe, Theo. Num Pages: 208 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158.

'The prince of philosophical novels' John Updike

In Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most glorious satires of the eighteenth century. His eponymous hero is an innocent young man whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own fortune. As he and his various companions roam over the world, an outrageous series of disasters - earthquakes, syphilis, the Inquisition - sorely test the young hero's optimism, holding a mirror up to all fanatics, zealots and moral reformers of humankind.

Translated and Edited by Theo Cuffe with an Introduction by Michael Wood

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140455106
SKU
V9780140455106
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99

About Voltaire
Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer, satirist, the embodiment of the 18th-century Enlightenment. Among his best-known works is the satirical short story CANDIDE (1759). Michael Wood (introducer) is currently Straut Professor of English at Princeton. His books include Stendhal, America in the Movies, The Magician's Doubts, Franz Kafka, and The Road to Delphi. Theo Cuffe (translator) has also translated a selection of Voltaire's short stories for Penguin, Micromégas and Other Short Fictions.

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