Candide and Other Tales
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781406790245 (1406790249)
Publish date: January 1st 2007
Publisher: Pomona Press
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.
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