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CANDIDE
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| By: |
Voltaire, Norman Cameron (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0140622632 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780140622638 |
| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
28 August, 1997 |
| Series: |
Penguin Popular Classics |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Language: |
English, Spanish |
| Description: |
The eponymous young hero and his friends move through a series of tortures, tragedies and reversals of fortune, in the company of Pangloss, a metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigologist of unflinching optimism. |
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Candide, or Optimism (1759) written by Voltaire, the shining star of the French Enlightenment, is a biting, hilarious and frequently outrageous satire that pokes philosophical fun at -- of all things -- the doctrine of optimism. Candide is a nave youth stubbornly adhering to the notion that "all is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds," despite being cast into a flood of misfortunes and picaresque misadventures that take him around the world. Whether Candide and optimism itself emerges unscathed in the end, hinges upon his own deceptively simple words: "let us cultivate our garden." |
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UK |
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Penguin Books Ltd |
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Non-returnable |
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