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Candide by Voltaire
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment, and its crowning achievement was Voltaire's "Candide". It follows the worldwide encounters - with shipwrecks, earthquakes, pestilence and human insanity - of its hero and his absurd tutor, Dr Pangloss.
Candide by Voltaire
Category: Classics
Candide is an innocent young nobleman who leads an idyllic, sheltered life and has adopted the optimistic mindset promoted by his tutor Dr Pangloss. But after committing an indiscretion and being expelled from his family home, Candide finds himself on a journey that will take him to Portugal, Argentina, ...Show more
Candide and Other Works by Voltaire
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent Voltaire is one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century. He fought against religious persecution, bigotry and injustice throughout his life, and is one of the thinkers who prepared the ...Show more
Candide and other stories by VOLTAIRE
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best of all possible worlds' - the Old and the New - before finally accepting that his old philosophy tutor Dr P ...Show more
Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire (FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguins Classics Ser.
Theo Cuffe's marvelous translation of Voltaire's satirical masterpiece. With its vibrant new translation and perceptive introduction this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of ...Show more
Candide, or the Optimist (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Voltaire
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire's hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for an ...Show more
Treatise On Toleration by Voltaire
Category: Non-Fiction
One of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought, a French bestseller in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks In 1762 Jean Calas, a merchant from Toulouse, was executed after being falsely accused of killing his son. As it became clear that Calas was in fact persecuted ...Show more
Voltaire's History of Charles Xii King of Sweden by Voltaire
Category: Accessories
Voltaire's History of Charles XII King of Sweden By Voltaire INTRODUCTION THE -Life of Charles XII- that Mr. John Burns once bought for a penny in the New Cut an incident in itself historical if one looks at it in the right way--was, he writes to say, an English version of Voltaire's book. The -Histoir ...Show more
Zadig and Other Stories by Voltaire
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Best known as the author of the satirical novel Candide, Voltaire also wrote other highly regarded works of philosophical fiction. With the title tale of this original collection of short stories, the author addresses the social and political problems of his own day in an ancient Babylonian setting. Fi ...Show more
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