Candide: Or Optimism - Paperback
by Voltaire
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Availability:In StockContributor:Voltaire, John Butt (Translator), John Butt (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsPublish date:1950-06-30Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780140440041ISBN-10:140440046UPC:9780140440041Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Satire, LiterarySize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SC8FZ81N1B
Candide: Or Optimism
"All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this "optimism" concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the "all for the best" approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters, not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only...
Series: Penguin Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780140440041ISBN-10:140440046UPC:9780140440041Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Satire, LiterarySize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SC8FZ81N1B
Fran?ois-Marie Arouet, writing under the pseudonym Voltaire, was born in 1694 into a Parisian bourgeois family. Educated by Jesuits, he was an excellent pupil but one quickly enraged by dogma. An early rift with his father--who wished him to study law--led to his choice of letters as a career. Insinuating himself into court circles, he became notorious for lampoons on leading notables and was...
Publisher: Penguin Group
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Voltaire, John Butt (Translator), John Butt (Introduction by)
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