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CANDIDE by VOLTAIRE
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
"Candide" is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the phi ...Show more
Candide by Voltaire
Category: Fiction
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work. A classi ...Show more
Candide by Voltaire
Category: Classic Fiction
After being caught kissing the Baron's daughter Cunegonde, gullible ingenue Candide is evicted from the castle where he lives to find himself wandering a world which is awash with disease, injustice, rape, pillage and slaughter; in other words he encounters all the worst aspects of the 18th century (the ...Show more
Candide by Voltaire
Category: Fiction
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 by Voltaire; Mark Ravenhill (Adapted by)
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
Candide is a satirical novella written by French philosopher and writer Voltaire. The story follows the adventures of Candide, a naive and optimistic young man who is taught by his tutor, Pangloss, that this world is the ""best of all possible worlds"". Candide's beliefs are challenged when he is expell ...Show more
Candide by Voltaire
Category: Classic Fiction | 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 - Large Print by Voltaire
Category: Fiction
Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversi ...Show more
Candide: Or Optimism by Voltaire
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Drop Caps
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Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories by Voltaire
Category: Classic Fiction
Franceas most distinguished man of letters This essential collection from the genius Voltaire includes his masterpiece and best-known work "Candide," as well as his novel "Zadig" and fourteen short stories: aMicromegas, a aThe World as It Is, a aMemnon, a aBababec and the Fakirs, a aHistory of Scarment ...Show more