Candide and Other Stories (World's Classics)
by:
Voltaire (author)
Roger Pearson (author)
'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' "Candide", published simultaneously in five European capitals in 1759, became an instant bestseller and is now regarded by many as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. A master story-teller, Voltaire found the...
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'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' "Candide", published simultaneously in five European capitals in 1759, became an instant bestseller and is now regarded by many as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. A master story-teller, Voltaire found the philosophical tale the perfect vehicle for his preoccupations with evil, human folly, and intolerance. He combined often wildly entertaining action with profoundly serious sense, parodying the traditional chivalric and Oriental tales with which his public was more familiar. This brilliant new translation of five of the major stories - "Micromegas", "Zadig", "The Ingenu", and "The White Bull", as well as "Candide" - is accompanied by a full introduction and notes which are indispensable to the modern reader.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780192834263 (0192834266)
Publish date: July 16th 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Philosophy,
France,
French Literature,
Short Stories,
18th Century
TITLE: Candide and Other Stories AUTHOR: Voltaire TRANSLATOR: Roger Pearson EDITION: Oxford World's Classics ISBN-13: 9780199535613 _____________________________ DESCRIPTION: "Candide is the most famous of Voltaire's "philosophical tales," in which he combined witty improbabilities wit...
Voltaire is a famous philosopher of the Enlightenment, and Candide his most famous work. It's very short, less than a hundred pages, and the edition I read filled out the book with three other novellas, Zadig, Ingenu, The White Bull and a short story Micromegas. Although Candide is the most celebrat...
There is so much sarcasm and cynicism concentrated in this little novel it makes Mark Twain look like Horatio Alger. Voltaire is great, but best taken in small doses.