Candide: or, Optimism - Paperback
by Voltaire
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Availability:In StockContributor:Voltaire, Peter Constantine (Translator), Diane Johnson (Introduction by)Series:Modern Library Classics (Paperback)Publish date:2005-10-11Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780812972016ISBN-10:812972015UPC:9780812972016Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Psychological, SatireSize:8.01 x 5.23 x 0.33 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCY8VDZAMS
Candide: or, Optimism
In this splendid new translation of Voltaire's satiric masterpiece, all the celebrated wit, irony, and trenchant social commentary of one of the great works of the Enlightenment is restored and refreshed. Voltaire may have cast a jaundiced eye on eighteenth-century Europe-a place that was definitely not the "best of all possible worlds." But amid its decadent society, despotic rulers, civil and...
Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780812972016ISBN-10:812972015UPC:9780812972016Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Psychological, SatireSize:8.01 x 5.23 x 0.33 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCY8VDZAMS
Voltaire (Fran?ois-Marie Arouet) (1694--1778) was one of the key thinkers of the European Enlightenment. Of his many works, Candide remains the most popular. Peter Constantine was awarded the 1998 PEN Translation Award for Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann and the 1999 National Translation Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov: Forty-three New Stories. Widely acclaimed for his recent translation of...
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
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Voltaire, Peter Constantine (Translator), Diane Johnson (Introduction by)
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