Candide and l'Ingénu - Paperback
by Voltaire
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Union Square & Co.ISBN-13:9781454959632ISBN-10:1454959630UPC:9781454959632Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Satire, LiterarySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCEVAZGKX4
Candide and l'Ingénu
Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent...
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Union Square & Co.ISBN-13:9781454959632ISBN-10:1454959630UPC:9781454959632Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Satire, LiterarySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCEVAZGKX4
Voltaire (1694-1778), born François-Marie Arouet, launched a lifelong, successful playwriting career in 1718, interrupted by imprisonment in the Bastille. Upon a second imprisonment, in which he adopted the pen name Voltaire, he was released after agreeing to move to London. There he wrote Lettres philosophiques, which galvanized French reform and satirized the religious teachings of René...
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